1426: East Germanic Languages Nov 6, 2018

Today there are only two main branches of Germanic languages, West Germanic and North Germanic, but there used to also be East Germanic languages. Unfortunately for scholars, the only one of which written samples are found is Gothic. Certainly there were other Germanic languages known to be spoken in Estonia and parts of Russia, but these were all usually German or Yiddish speaking immigrants. There were theoretically dozens of identified tribes who could have used different East Germanic languages. In this way, while the concept of "write or die" exists now in academia, this same principle applies to languages.