Re: help

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:58:50PM -0400, <Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier> wrote:
> > I am in need of a basic grammar for a conlang that is loosely based on
> > the PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN section of a dictionary from forty or fifty
> > years ago. Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Well, this may be helpful: the online version of the American Heritage
> Dictionary includes that P-I-E section.  Go to http://www.bartleby.com/61/
> and scroll down to the "Indo-European Roots"  heading.
Budding Semiticists should also check out John Huenergard's article
on Proto-Semitic.  (Huehnergard has done much of his work on the
Semitic languages of remote Antiquity, and is the author of the best
textbook in English available for Akkadian.)

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