/lang/ - Languages

>>557
I saw this on /pol/, thought it was interesting. The thread there had quite a few replies, but none on here, a board dedicated to languages?

preposterous

>>689
The fact that /pol/ had something to say about it doesn't surprise me, after all it's a political board and politics is one of those subjects where everyone feels entitled to have an opinion, regardless of their level of education.

Just a "grain of salt" for you guys: the grammar is probably correct, but the sounds used might not be the ones the Proto-Indo-European speakers used. Specially with three certain consonants, usually dubbed "h1", "h2" and "h3".

Transcription of the text accordingly to Byrd:
>h₂óuis h₁éḱuōs-kʷe
h₂áuei h₁iosméi h₂ulh₁náh₂ né h₁ést, só h₁éḱuoms derḱt. só gʷrhₓúm uóǵʰom ueǵʰed; só méǵh₂m bʰórom; só dʰǵʰémonm h₂ṓḱu bʰered. h₂óuis h₁ékʷoibʰios ueuked: “dʰǵʰémonm spéḱioh₂ h₁éḱuoms-kʷe h₂áǵeti, ḱḗr moi agʰnutor”. h₁éḱuōs tu ueukond: “ḱludʰí, h₂ouei! tód spéḱiomes, nsméi agʰnutór ḱḗr: dʰǵʰémō, pótis, sē h₂áuies h₂ulh₁náh₂ gʷʰérmom uéstrom uept, h₂áuibʰios tu h₂ulh₁náh₂ né h₁esti. tód ḱeḱluuṓs h₂óuis h₂aǵróm bʰuged.

However, not only this is barely unreadable but I disagree with Byrd's /a/; I think /a/ in PIE is what people is marking as h2, and Byrd's "a" is actually /ao/ or /aó/. So re-rendering it:
>Aówis hékwos-kwe
Aówei hyosméy awlhnóa né hést, só hékwoms derkt. só gwrhúm wóghom weghed; só mégam bhórom; só dghémonm aówis hékwoybhyos wewked: "dghémonm spékyoa hékwoms-kwe aógeti, kér moy aghnutor". Hékwós tu wewkond: "kludhí, aowey! Tód spékyomes, nsméy aghnutór kér: dghémó, pótis, sé aówyes awlhnóa gwhérmom wéstrom wept, aówibhyos tu awlhnóa né hesti. Tód mamma mialuwos aówis aogróm bhuged.

>Holy shit, completely alien!
Not that much.
Aówis: sheep, nominative; compare it with Latin ouis /owis/.
Hékwos-kwe: "and horse". Almost identical to Latin: equus-que /ekwus-kwe/
Spékyoa: has a cognate in current English - "speak".
Hesti - Latin "est", German "ist", English "is"…
Dghémó - Latin "homo" [human being]; note some variations of the word resemble a lot "humanus" [human], too.

And now, translation stolen from Wiki time!
The Sheep and the Horses

[On a hill,] a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses." The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool." Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain.[12]