Before Babel: Ancient Tales from Genesis Retold in Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European

Bertrand C. Barrois (1)

1 Institute for Defense Analyses

Before Babel retells the legends of the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, and Psalm 104 in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, with abundant grammatical commentary. This “translation” provides a more satisfying exemplar of the proto-language than Schleicher’s little fable and demonstrates its narrative power. Appendices on the author’s orthographic and grammatical conventions and a mini-lexicon are included.

Mots clés: Indoeuropean; Proto-Indo-European

Domaines: Linguistique

Bertrand C. Barrois. Before Babel: Ancient Tales from Genesis Retold in Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. 2015. ⟨hal-01231610⟩