Re: Writing text in PIE? (sheep and horses)

From: Anthony Appleyard
Message: 7133
Date: 2001-04-18

--- In cybalist@..., Julianus <julianus@...> wrote:
> [Schleichter's fable] is on the WWW.
> Go to http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/indoeuro.html
> and look at the bottom of the page.

I saw a book about Schleichter's fable. He seemed to have written
it in "Aryan" (= the immediate common ancestor of Sanskrit and
Iranian); someone later translated it into PIE in the time when people
thought that the laryngeals were vowels and spelt them as the schwa
letter (= turned lowercase `e') with subscript numbers; later someone
else updated the PIE language with the laryngeals as consonants.

Eclectorium represents as `@' a sound that Piotr Gasiorowski represents as `h'
(e.g. {wlhna:} = "wool" (nom.sg.). I am sorry to repeat, but (and it would be
useful if this was in this list's standard information) please DON'T use `@'
as a phoneme character on this or any other Yahoo group. That is because when
the message is put in Yahoo's archives, any letter string containing an `@' is
assumed to be an email address and is replaced by an abbreviation and a link,
to stop spammers from collecting email addresses to send spam to.

> There's also a link to the Degaspregos version.
I followed that link, and it starts thus:-
> Bergose owos kweos wulnom ne habit ekwomi weidakwit; ...
What language is that? It looks like a descendant of PIE.