Gothic Language Translator

Gothic is an ancient East Germanic language spoken by the Goths, recorded primarily through the 4th-century Gothic Bible translation by Bishop Wulfila. This english to gothic language translator converts your text both ways: English into Gothic and Gothic back into English.

Old Gothic is the oldest well-documented language in the Germanic family, making it a direct window into the roots of german gothic and the germanic gothic language tree. The visigothic language spread across Spain and Italy before the gothic languages died out around the 8th century.

Use this tool to explore gothic words, names, and phrases from one of the ancient world's most historically significant languages. For another ancient Germanic language from the same era, the Old Norse Translator covers the Viking Age speech of Scandinavia.

Getting your gothic translation only takes a moment:

1. Type or paste English text into the left box
2. Click Translate to get the Gothic result
3. Copy the output, or swap to change direction

To decode, type Gothic into the left box and click Swap before translating. This gothic language translation online tool handles both directions the same way.

Common English words and their Gothic equivalents from the attested vocabulary:

The most searched goth words include "hails" (hail/hello) and "atta" (father), both recognizable as ancestors of words still used in English and German today. Gothic words from the Bible corpus are the most documented, making Wulfila's translation the richest single source of gothic vocabulary available to linguists.

Most people arrive here for one of these reasons:

• Gothic language alphabet: Students and history fans who want to see how Wulfila's Gothic script, adapted from Greek letters, renders words in its angular characters.
• Linguistic research: Scholars tracing germanic gothic roots through Proto-Germanic to compare with modern German, Dutch, or English vocabulary.
• Visigoth language exploration: History enthusiasts researching the Visigoths or Ostrogoths who want to see what the visigothic language actually looked and sounded like.
• Creative writing: Authors writing historical fiction set in late antiquity or the Gothic kingdoms who need authentic Gothic names and phrases.

My brother was writing a novel set in the Gothic kingdom of Italy and needed authentic character names that felt rooted in the language. He ran his shortlist through here to check how the phonetics mapped before settling on the final names.

If the visual side of ancient scripts interests you, the Rune Translator covers Elder Futhark, the runic alphabet used across the Germanic world during the same period.

Gothic is one of the hardest ancient languages to find a good online tool for, since most gothic dictionary resources are buried in academic databases. Most tools either return nothing or confuse the real Gothic language with Warhammer 40K high gothic translator results.

This translator uses AI to work from the documented gothic language alphabet and gothic diction preserved in the Gothic Bible, producing output based on real Gothic grammar. It draws on the Wulfila corpus for attested gothic vocabulary and extends to other words using consistent Proto-Germanic phonological rules.

For other ancient Germanic language tools, the Anglo Saxon Translator covers Old English and the Latin Translator handles the Roman language that shaped Gothic through the Bible translation. The Wikipedia article on the Gothic language covers the full gothic language alphabet, the Gothic Bible, and the language's place in the germanic gothic family tree.