Gothic is said to be a “proto-germanic” language, spoken by the Goths who entered northern Europe when the Ice Age had ended, circa 1000 b. c. up the Danube from the Black Sea region where Herodotus circa 400 b. c. connected the Goths (Getae) to the Scythians (progeny of Japheth’s son Ashkenaz). The Gutians of the Zagros mountains in Sumerian records were the original Goths, probably progeny of Shem’s son Madai, the Medes of the Zagros also his progeny having received the Median language brought to India there known as Sanskrit, and Gothic the infant of the Germanic languages.