--- Padraic Brown wrote:
> Talarian and Yllurian are fairly closely related Aryan languages.
What do you mean by "Aryan"? That they form a triangle with the Indic and
Iranian languages?
< snip >
> Linguistically, Talarian is quite conservative. It is
> in some points similar to Hittite (and English),
> having a "primitive" verbal system of two tenses, it's
> nouns are declined in eight cases in the singular and
> four in the dual and plural. There are also some
> similarities to Tocharian that escape me at the mo.
It definitely looks very Indo-European, and the similarities you describe are
visible.
< snip >
> Here's a parallel text, Talarian first:
>
> wárkaççweti saç-he wiros-to:
> pâtâto pataxartassan-ca-he;
> pâtâto xowan-can-he;
> ffrencato pûrahamtar-ta pûray-ca sactuça-he.
>
> terdoenó-ari hevergedonin ha:
> haþ þeþity ta craema tayos gernentevoe;
> haþ edeverity ta havió;
> haþ ademandenity hayos þaceþ egny to detecevó.
>
> These things a man must do:
> feed the hungry;
> feed the cattle;
> bring firewood to the holy fire.
>
> Believe me, if we looked close, there'd be cognates!
> You should at least recognise pûra- and egny- as the
> words for "fire" in the respective languages.
Oh yes, and a few other things, too! But I would still be interested to see an
interlinear translation.
My alternative translation of the third line in Talarian:
"Is John Cowan able to bake French fries?" :)
> If you like, I'll poke around for numbers in all the
> IE based languages I've got.
By all means do so! You have even more than those two? And where are they on
the Legratec-scale?
Jan
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