%0 Journal Article %T Gothic ‹ggw› %A Snædal, Magnús %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2011 %R 10.2478/v10148-011-0019-z %N Volume 128, Issue 1 %P 145-154 %K historical linguistics, Gothic ponology and phonetics, Holtzmann’s Law, ‘Verschärfung’, ggw %@ 1897-1059 %D 2010 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/gothic-ggw %X The paper deals with the orthographic cluster ‹ggw› in Gothic and the question if it denoted both /ngw/ and /ggw/ or only the former. The paper concludes that internal evidence only points to /ngw/ and that external evidence cannot be used to support double pronunciation of the cluster.