Writing text in PIE? (sheep and horses)

Anthony:

>I saw a book about Schleichter's fable. He seemed to have written
>it in "Aryan"

Actually, wasn't that how they conceived IE at the time due to
19th century romanticism and the "orient obsession"? I think
it was only later that people finally realized that IE didn't
look like Sanskrit (duh!) and that it had a cornucopia of *e's and
*o's like Greek (ooh!)

>later someone else updated the PIE language with the laryngeals
>as consonants.

Yes, but *H1 could still be in reality a schwa or glottal stop,
at least in initial position, and in other cases *e or simply
a lengthened vowel. I'm starting to think *H1 is a pretend
phoneme that means many things at once.

>Eclectorium represents as `@' a sound that Piotr Gasiorowski >represents as
>`h' (e.g. {wlhna:} = "wool" (nom.sg.).

Oh, yeah. *H1 there. I think I wrote **wlxnax out of confusion.

>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.

Great, so Yahoo! is altering people's email, eh? How delightfully Orwellian.
I will try not to use the at-sign in the future... sigh.

>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.

I think it's a conlang (ie: someone with alot of time on their
hands has created a new language out of PIE bits and parts and
didn't have the kindness to explain it as such). Not knowing
the ins and outs of the language I'd guess that the name
Degaspregos derives from /dega/ "ten" (Greek deca) and
/spregos/ "speech" (German sprechen).

Quirky but kewl nonetheless.

- gLeN

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