Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European....

[alfreda89]

As a child, I loved the dictionary. They didn't teach phonics in my school--it was a different period of teaching experimentation--so I was constantly trying to figure out from the dictionary how words were pronounced. And I kept seeing Proto-Indo-European as a root language.

Who were they? How did it sound? Did anyone still speak it?

There are anthropologists still trying to answer those questions. Here's the latest stab at the language.

Comments

[marycatelli]

Tom Shippey's books on Tolkien have quite a bit on them, because of the study's determining effects on his works.