Editing Vandalic language (section)

==History==
[[File:Vandals Migration pt.gif|thumb|The Vandals during the [[Migration period]]]]
According to their own mythology, the [[Goths]] originally came from [[Scandinavia]]. It is debated whether Gothic, and by extension Vandalic, came from Scandinavia, as linguistic evidence shows no specific relation between [[North Germanic languages|North Germanic]] and either Gothic or Vandalic. Still, it is possible that both the Goths and the Vandals migrated from Scandinavia southwards, where their respective languages started to diverge from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]].<ref name="Phylogeny" />

The linguistic [[Linguistic homeland|urheimat]] of Vandalic probably lies south of the Baltic sea. They [[Crossing of the Rhine|crossed the Rhine]] in the fifth century,<ref name="Phylogeny" /> establishing themselves together with the [[Hasdingi]] and the [[Silingi]] in [[Gallaecia]] (northern [[Portugal]] and [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]]) and in [[Andalusia|southern Spain]], following other Germanic and non-Germanic peoples ([[Visigoths]], [[Alans]] and [[Suebi]]) in c. 410 before they moved [[Vandal Kingdom|to North Africa]] in the  430s. Their kingdom flourished in the early 6th century, but after their [[Vandalic War|defeat]] in 534 they were placed [[Praetorian prefecture of Africa|under Byzantine administration]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moorhead |first1=John |title=The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-4443-3489-0 |edition=1 |language=en |chapter=Goths and Vandals, migration history}}</ref><ref name="Miles">{{cite book |last1=Merrills |first1=Andrew H. |last2=Miles |first2=Richard |title=The Vandals |date=2010 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Chichester |isbn=9781444318074}}</ref>{{rp|page=1}} The Vandalic language is presumed to still have been spoken at the time of the Byzantine conquest.{{r|Miles|page=95}} It likely disappeared before the end of the century.<ref name="Hennings">{{cite book |last1=Hennings |first1=Thordis |title=Einführung in das Mittelhochdeutsche |date=2012 |publisher=De Gruyter |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-11-025959-9 |page=26 |edition=3 |language=de |trans-title=Introduction to Middle High German}}</ref>