Nostraticist Vladislav
Markovich Illich-Svitych
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A poem in reconstructed Nostratic
composed by the late great Nostraticist
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych:
Tongue time-of
water-of path/ford
gone-of dwelling-to us lead(s)
he but there-to come(s) no(t)
which-who fear(s) deep water
Language is a ford through the river of time
It leads us to the dwelling of those gone ahead
But he does not arrive there
Who is afraid of deep water
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Text from the Poem by Illich-Svitych
Nostratic:
K̥elHä wet̥ei ʕaK̥un kähla,
k̥aλai palhʌ-k̥ʌ na wetä.
IPA Phonetic Transcription:
/KʼelH¿ wetʼei ʕaKʼun k¿hla/
/kʼat͡ɬai palhVkʼV na wet¿/
Word-for-Word Analysis:
K̥elHä: Tongue / Language
wet̥ei: Time-of ( Water-of )
ʕaK̥un: Path / Ford
kähla: [ Is ]
k̥aλai: Gone / Dead
palhʌ-k̥ʌ: Dwelling-to
na: Us
wetä: Lead(s).
English Translation
"Language is a
ford through the river of time,
It leads us to the dwelling of those gone ahead."
Gothic Translation
Razda faúrdus
ist þaírh aƕa ƕeilis,
bauáinai uns þizô gaggans tiuhiþ
( Note: The poem is nonetheless speculative, as it is based on
reconstructing a proto-language
from a hypothesized super-family encompassing Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, &
other families.)
The great Nostraticist
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych
was born in1934 Kyiv Ukraine
𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌸𐌿𐍃 𐍉𐌹𐌿𐌼
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