Crimean Gothic
noun
An East Germanic language, supposedly a dialect or descendant of Gothic, which continued to be used in the Crimea down to the 18th cent.
- The only extant evidence of Crimean Gothic is in a letter, published 1589, by de Busbecq, the Habsburg ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which gives a list of some eighty words and a song supposedly written in the language..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Atlantis. Compare German Krimgotisch.