Urschrift

Urschrift [ʊərskrɪpt / warskrɪpt] was designed by Aayush Chaturvedi in July, 2015 to write Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed ancestor of all Indo-European languages. PIE had no written form and Aayush felt that there should be a script to write the language. Each letter is a result of the comparison of the old Indo-European alphabets of the equivalent pronunciations.

Notable features

Type of writing system: vocalized abjad
Direction of writing: right to left in horizontal lines
Used to write: Proto-Indo-European
Number of letters: 23 consonants and 10 vowels
Vowels are placed on top-left of consonants as diacritics, or on a vowel carrier if they appear alone
It has three laryngeals : h₁ , h₂ and h₃. Assumed to be pronounced [ʔ], [ħ], and [ɣʷ] respectively.

Urschrift

Consonants

Urschrift consonants

Vowel diacritics

Urschrift diacritics

Other symbols

Urschrift other symbols

Sample text

Sample text in Urschrift

Transliteration

H₃rḗḱs dei̯u̯ós-kwe

H₃rḗḱs h₁est; só n̥putlós. H₃rḗḱs súhxnum u̯l̥nh₁to. Tósi̯o ǵʰéu̯torm̥ prēḱst: "Súhxnus moi̯ ǵn̥h₁i̯etōd!" Ǵʰéu̯tōr tom h₃rḗǵm̥ u̯eu̯ked: "h₁i̯áǵesu̯o dei̯u̯óm U̯érunom". Úpo h₃rḗḱs dei̯u̯óm U̯érunom sesole nú dei̯u̯óm h₁i̯aǵeto. "ḱludʰí moi̯, pter U̯erune!" Dei̯u̯ós U̯érunos diu̯és km̥tá gʷah₂t. "Kʷíd u̯ēlh₁si?" "Súhxnum u̯ēlh₁mi." "Tód h₁estu", u̯éu̯ked leu̯kós dei̯u̯ós U̯érunos. Nu h₃réḱs pótnih₂ súhxnum ǵeǵonh₁e.

Translation

The king and the god

Once there was a king. He was childless. The king wanted a son. He asked his priest: "May a son be born to me!" The priest said to the king: "Pray to the god Werunos". The king approached the god Werunos to pray now to the god. "Hear me, father Werunos!" The god Werunos came down from heaven. "What do you want?" "I want a son." "Let this be so", said the bright god Werunos. The king's lady bore a son.

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