Indo-European Linguistics & Language Family

These are the latest changes made to our reference book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European in Version 3.35:

- In page 42, Schleicher’s Fable in Proto-Indo-European, in IE II, IE III (equivalent to the Modern Indo-European version) and other proto-languages: all versions have been corrected, but specially the Proto-Italic one, following some critics about the phonetic shift from IE -o- to Italic -ö- or -u-. You can read the whole Schleicher’s Fable in Indo-European and its dialects.

Version 3.36:

- In pages 142-145, the Indo-European numerals section has been slightly improved.

- In page 318-320, Modern Indo-European terms for day (Eur. dínom, as Sanskrit and Latin, and not deinom) and daylight (Eur. dhochos, as Germanic and Baltic, and not d-aghos, as in Indo-Iranian) have been corrected or improved.

Our book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is already for sale at Amazon.com (visit Amazon’s book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European).

These are the latest changes made in version 3.34:

- Latin’s Penultimate rule (page 19) is formulated incompletely: the tone falls on the penultimate syllable if this is long, and on the antepenultimate if it is not. That’s why it’s said Lat. módicus, but Lat. pudícus.

- In page 172 Indo-European rodo means “gnaw”, not exactly “excite”.

- In page 173, Indo-European verbs of the type linéqmi (linqō), bhenegmi (bhegō), amneghti (amghō) - appearing only in Indo-Iranian and Hittite - would be more logically included in the B-4 group, in an additional subclass III.

Due to the need of other, non-European online shops, we had to prepare other printing formats for the Print-on-Demand services that Amazon.com and Lulu.com offered.

Before we printed the whole PDF files again we decided to correct some known mistakes, namely:

- The Personal Pronouns section (version 3.32) - we’ve added the tonic variants.

- The old proto-language translations of the Schleicher’s Fable in Proto-Indo-European, which were corrected long ago, and have been already published in the web for a month or so.

So, you can now buy those newer printed editions of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European.

The Indo-European Language Association.

After some months without a reason to use this website, we’ve eventually placed it in its own subdomain, so that all Indo-European resources released (whether from the Indo-European Language Association or not) might be posted.

Let’s see what’s new about the Proto-Indo-European language reconstruction and revival:

1. The book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European has begun the new (online-only) versions, after its printed edition. Version 3.31 adds some new information about the personal pronouns, which might be completed in the next weeks.
2. The Schleicher’s Fable in Indo-European proto-languages has still no specific page within Dnghu’s website; until then, it might be downloaded from the homepage.
3. The Indo-European dictionary (Pokorny) in HTML, which is the same version as Pokorny’s Indogermanisches Wörterbuch (PDF), has been also published as a complement for newcomers, so that this old reference can be used immediatly.
4. There is an old (not released before) Indo-European noun formation paradigm, which offers the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed endings and compares the different forms attested in its proto-languages.
5. The Indo-European indefinite and demonstrative pronouns aren’t studied that much in the usual works on Proto-Indo-European reconstruction. The Indo-European Language Association, because of its interest in reviving the language, needs a good reference to use them nowadays.
6. Also, the Indo-European personal pronouns‘ original form has been a question of debate since the first reconstruction. We believe that the current state of the art in Indo-European linguistics offers enough information to reconstruct them fairly well.
7. The best new piece of work we can offer right now is our revised Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, which, although only a tiny 50-page table-based lexicon, has been revised again and again in search for the best reconstruction possible. Unlike Pokorny’s work (and many others out there), whose main aim is to paint a general and thorough picture of the PIE vocabulary, this here is the minimum, reconstructed with a high level of confidence, revised lexicon we can offer to begin speaking Indo-European.

We’ll add all those new works to the Indo-European Dictionary-Translator Engine - and maybe then, who knows, to the WordPress translator plugin…

The Indo-European Language Association.

In these minor revisions,

a. Non-relevant notes are now footnotes, to facilitate the reading of the main sections.

b. Footnotes are left for the end of the section.

c. More internal hyperlinks are added, to facilitate a quick vocabulary reference.

Still to improve are styles (especially the footnotes) and bookmarks.

For more on this, see Modern Indo-European Grammar v.2.x.

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It includes minor revisions of Version 1.0, including

• Change from original .doc document into Open Document .odt (and consequently a drastic decrease in file size
• Page numbers are also reformed, as Microsoft Word appear to crash with more than 377 pages (?)
• The PDF is made with Open Office (v.2.2) and OpenSuSe, as Windows doesn’t seem to deal well, neither with Acrobt nor with Office or Open Office PDF converters - again, drastic decrease in File Size thanks to OpenOffice.
• HTML version is not supported anymore, as it is better for our servers (and also for the users) to build up a community based on ebooks, instead of online - thus unstable - resources.

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In this minor revision, all special Latin endings in -tas, -tatis, “-ty” in English, are modified and made “more Indo-European”, so to speak, and left as simply -ta, i.e., MIE Third or a-Declension.

Thus, for example, Uniuersitas, Uniuersitatis, “University”, is changed from older MIE Oiniwersitats (i.e. root in -t) to simply MIE Oiniwersita.

For more on this, see Modern Indo-European Grammar.

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We open this new site dedicated to the Proto-Indo-European language and its derived dialects - whether dead or alive - with a simple series of highly hypothetical historical ethno-linguistic maps, showing the supposed Indo-European language development in Eurasia since Pre-Proto-Indo-European, some 7.000 years ago.

We plan to dedicate this new site to different resources and articles on general (Pre-, Late, Middle and Early) Proto-Indo-European, as well as for its derived dialects. We believe that specially maps can be a great source for understanding linguistic evolution through history, even when their details remain controversial.

This whole work is licensed under a dual GNU Free Documentation License and (only for non-Wikipedia content) Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

We hope to post some more written information on the images in the next days, instead of just these first maps.

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