<s>[INST] This looks interesting.

I was listening to a teacher tell a group of students some of the basics of now-dead languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Gothic. I started thinking about the phonetics and phonology of Gothic, which is often used to learn about the phonetic relationships between English and German. (The language's writing system was created by the 4th-century missionary Wulfila when he translated the Christian Bible, and the "script" that was developed uses Etruscan, Greek, and Latin symbols, which wasn't too bad since the Gothic alphabet only needs a few extra symbols.) 

I started thinking: what if Ancient Gothic was similar to Old Norse in terms of how the language was phonetically complex, like with long and short vowels with lots of diphthongs and vowels that sound like a mix of vowel and consonant (the language has a great name for it: "svarabhakti") and lots of sound changes (this "svarabhakti" was a very weird blending of vowels because it would take a "(non-syllabic initial) consonant in a word, followed by a vowel or diphthong or syllable...and the resulting sound would look and sound almost like it was a strange vowel sound")?[/INST]