Re: Re- Conlanging

Do you know where Lauren Petrich got this
passage from Illich-Svitych?  I looked at
the website you provided, and it gives a
wonderful list of bibliographical sources,
but pulls this lovely text out of the blue.
Who was V. Illich-Svitych, and where would
he have been likely to publish this?

Sally


> Here is a poem in reconstructed Nostratic composed by the late
> Nostraticist Vladislav Illich-Svitych:
>
> K'elHa"         wet'e-i         `aK'u-n         ka"hla
> Tongue          time-of         water-of        path/ford
>
> k'ala-i         palhV-k'V       na              wete
> gone-of         dwelling-to     us              lead(s)
>
> s'a da          'a-k'V          'ejV            'a"la"
> he but          there-to        come(s)         no(t)
>
> ja-k'o          pele            t'uba           wete
> which-who       fear(s)         deep            water
>
> Language is a ford through the river of time
> It leads us to the dwelling of the ancestors
> But he does not arrive there
> Who is afraid of deep water
>
> Note: V is an uncertain vowel, K is k/q, a" is a with " on top, and s'
> is s with ' on top. The ' after a stop consonant (t, k, etc.) denotes
> a glottalized consonant (with a stricture in the throat).
>
> Several of these words have Indo-European cognates; I give them both
> in the traditional transcription and a modified one closer to
> Nostratic due to Shevoroshkin et al, following a /, when it is
> different. I will give only the more common offshoots; the Latin and
> Greek words should be familiar from borrowings. You may have fun
> looking for other offshoot words.
>
> `aK'u   IE akwa- / akwha-       Latin: aqua, "water"
> palhV   IE pelH- / phelH-       Greek: polis, "city"
> na      IE nes, nos             English: us; Latin: nos
> wete    IE wedh- / wed(h)-      English: wed
> k'o     IE kw(o/i)- / kwh(o/i)- English: who, what, other wh's;
>                                 Latin: qu-
> t'uba   IE dheub- / d(h)eup-    English: deep
> wete    IE wed- / wet-          English: water, wet;
>                                 Greek: hudor, hudr-, "water";
>                                 Russian: voda, "water"
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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