{"id":257,"date":"2016-09-09T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_classics\/?p=257"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:42:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T23:42:59","slug":"proto-indo-european-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/2016\/09\/09\/proto-indo-european-fables\/","title":{"rendered":"Proto-Indo-European Fables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a few years ago, but it&#8217;s quite fun. These are two stories rendered entirely in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the hypothetical &#8220;mother language&#8221; of Greek, Latin, English, Persian, Sanskrit, and dozens of other major world languages. The two thrilling stories &#8211;<strong><em>H<sub>2<\/sub>\u00f3uis h<sub>1<\/sub>\u00e9\u1e31u\u014ds-k<sup>w<\/sup>e <\/em><\/strong>(&#8220;The Sheep and the Horses&#8221;), and\u00a0<strong><em>H<sub>3<\/sub>r<\/em><em>\u1e17\u1e31s deiu\u00f3s-k<sup>w<\/sup>e\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(&#8220;The King and the God&#8221;) are even narrated so you can hear what we think PIE sounded like!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/exclusives\/articles\/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable\">link<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a few years ago, but it&#8217;s quite fun. These are two stories rendered entirely in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the hypothetical &#8220;mother language&#8221; of Greek, Latin, English, Persian, Sanskrit, and dozens of other major world languages. The two thrilling&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/2016\/09\/09\/proto-indo-european-fables\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Proto-Indo-European Fables<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}