Editing Vandalic language (section)

== Classification ==
Vandalic is traditionally classified as an East Germanic language,<ref name="Wrede">{{cite book |last1=Wrede |first1=Ferdinand |title=Über die Sprache der Wandalen |date=2018 |orig-date=1886 |publisher=De Gruyter |location=Berlin/Boston |isbn=9783111347615 |language=de |trans-title=On the language of the Vandals}}</ref>{{rp|page=4}}<ref name="Hennings" /> though the reasons for this classification are mostly historical and not linguistical.{{r|Hartmann|p=7}} Due to the perception of Vandalic as an East Germanic language, its reconstruction from [[onomastics]] recorded by Greek and Roman sources relies on Gothic forms. Therefore, it is difficult to assess whether or not Vandalic is closely related to Gothic.{{r|Hartmann|page=9}}

Theories include that Vandalic together with Gothic and [[Burgundian language (Germanic)|Burgundian]] formed a [[dialect continuum]];<ref name="Riegger">{{cite journal |last1=Hartmann |first1=Frederik |last2=Riegger |first2=Chiara |title=The Burgundian language and its phylogeny: A cladistical investigation |journal=NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution |date=16 March 2022 |volume=75 |issue=1 |pages=42–80 |doi=10.1075/nowele.00062.har|s2cid=247514646 }}</ref> that the language of the Vandals was actually Gothic;{{r|Reichert|p=47}} and that they were different languages that separated early on, without having an intermediary East Germanic ancestor.<ref name="Phylogeny">{{cite book |last1=Hartmann |first1=Frederik |chapter=Genealogical implications and Germanic phylogeny |title=Germanic Phylogeny |date=2023 |pages=172–211 |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198872733.003.0005 |isbn=9780191983719 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford}}</ref>