Gothic alphabet

Gothic
Gothic;
Script type	Alphabet
Time period	From c. 350, in decline by 600
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Gothic
Related scripts
Parent systems	Greek script augmented with Latin and possibly Runic (questionable) Gothic;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Goth (206), Gothic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Gothic
Unicode range	U+10330–U+1034F
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The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible.^[1]

The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic phonology:

^ According to the testimony of the historians Philostorgius, Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen. Cf. Streitberg (1910:20).