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The Gramática del indoeuropeo moderno is the translation into Spanish of the Preface and Introduction sections of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, the main work of the Indo-European Revival Association.

Translations of those introductory sections into French and German are also being prepared. The rest of the book is deemed too specialized (and sometimes subject to future change) to spend our time and effort translating it - the book is, however, licensed under GFDL - CC-by-sa, so that anyone can translate it into any possible language, and then redistribute/publish it elsewhere.

There are also some Wiki Websites prepared to host the translations of the book, apart from other relevant information about the Proto-Indo-European language and its revival as a modern language, namely Indo-European (in English), Indo-Europeen (en Français), Indogermanisch (auf Deutsch), indoeuropeo (in italiano), etc. (visit europaio.org and sindhueuropaiom.org for more languages)

Your Indo-European Language Team.

The latest version of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, 1st Printed Edition, has been released after some minor corrections (now version 3.15):

- The printed design has been improved

- The frontpage slightly modified

- Minor syntax, translation, and corrections have been applied to all chapters.

Thanks to all of you for your corrections and comments. The Final Version is due for next week, after the editor and the printer have agreed on the final changes. The frontpage is being adjusted to vector images (with Adobe Illlustrator), and the final text for print will be corrected for b/w digital print with Acrobat and Distiller.

Your Indo-European Language Team.

The latest version of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, 1st Printed Edition, has been released after some major corrections (now version 3.10):

- The printed design has been improved, the frontpage modified and the PDF size adjusted to the real size of the printed edition (22×17cm)

- The Notes show more accurate reconstructions of modern IE (mainly Anglo-Latin) words.

- Minor syntax, translation, and corrections have been applied to all chapters.

- The Noun Declension system has been adapted to a more Graeco-Latin scheme (i.e., the First declension is equivalent to Latin a or first declension, and to the Greek alpha-declension, and so on).

- The chapter on verbs has been slightly improved.

- The Appendix on Phonology, especially on the palatovelars’ question, has been corrected. The syntax Appendix improved.

Thanks to all of you for your corrections and comments. We hope to keep publishing minor corrections and newer major versions with your inestimable help.

Your Indo-European Language Team.

Almost 2 months after the public release of version 2.00, a new major version 3.00 has been published, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, 1st Edition, with its own ISBN and Legal Deposit.

Unlike the more informal v.2.00, firstly called Europaio:A Brief Grammar of the European Language, Vol. I, 1st Revised Edition, and then 2nd. Edition/A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, this release has been prepared with an expert in Indo-European linguistics and will have a printed edition, B&W paperback, with a size of app. ISO B5, with a cost of 20€ before VAT. The first 100 copies printed will be donated to different European libraries, and the editor will offer the ebook to download for free from its website, too.

The following major changes have been made:

- The writing system has been symplified to the older v.1.00 one (i.e., without Satem-Centum distinction), and the reasons for such a decision are explained in the First (Phonetic) Appendix.

- The first chapter has been completely revised to include other Indo-European dialects of Europe and their main linguistic and/or archaeological features.

- Minor syntax, translation, and corrections of MIE forms have been applied to all chapters.

- The Noun (hence also Adjective and Pronoun) Declension system has been finally left as a complete 8-case one, giving the most common reconstructions for it, as well as notes about the usual dialectal differences.

- The chapter on verbs and especially the Modern Indo-European conjugation system have been completely rewriten thanks to Prof. Dr. López-Menchero, who has made two divisions, the first into two main conjugation groups (Athematic and Thematic) and another, more complex one into 8 Thematic and 4 Athematic subgroups, giving thus twelve different groups of verbs (with a general group of ‘irregulars), therefore helping IE being still more difficult to learn

- As Modern Indo-European syntactic details are difficult to ascertain nowadays - at least to be able to write a second thorough volume - we decided to include an Appendix on Proto-Indo-European syntax, which follows mainly Lehman’s findings with subsequent corrections from newer manuals (viz. Friedrich, Mendoza, Beekes, Ramat, etc.).

- The etymological notes have been written at the end of the book, instead of in the middle of the chapters. This style correction is a great improvement for the printed book, but in turn causes problems for the correct use of internal links. All bookmarks will have to be corrected one by one; we will try to correct it completely for the next minor release.

- As expected, only an English version has been finished. We hope this edition is correct enough to be able to work some months on translating the book into (at least) French, German, Italian and Spanish, without having to substitute them for newer corrected versions…

Thanks to all of you for your corrections and comments.We hope to keep publishing minor corrections and newer major versions with your inestimable help.

Your Indo-European Language Team.

Until recently, we didn’t deem it useful to print our material (but for ISBN and Legal Deposit issues), as our grammar was very simple and the information contained was freely copied and redistributed.

However, as our regional community is interested in offering copies of our grammar in their Public Libraries, and they’ve offered some public means to print the material, we are going to make another major release, possibly named 3.0.

Major changes will include, thanks to the help of some specialized readers (mostly scholars from Spain):

1. Major corrections of obviously wrong reconstructions (especially from Greek and Latin), and adding of different possible reconstructions.
2. Vowels and Laryngeals’ question (only to show how the oldest IE phonetic sounded like)
3. Thorough explanation of IE dialects when possible, and that chapter left for the end of the book.
4. Occlusives: palatovelars are excluded (again) from the writing system, and the reasons explained.
5. Changes in noun declension and in its classification into different numbers, now trying to follow the Latin one
6. A thorough revision of verbal inflection.
7. Corrections of mistakes in English and other languages
8. Syntax: Instead of waiting for a new big second volume, we will try to include all known common features of the oldest dialects of PIE into a small chapter.
9. Formal issues: Notes are left for another independent (and cheaper) volume in black and white, ordered by Note number and also with PIE roots ordered alphabetically, to facilitate look up of etymologies and MIE words while reading the main book.

That book will be available first as a printed copy (some 500 pages) and possibly some time thereafter in PDF for download, and it will still have a CC-by-sa and GFDL licence. We plan to order some 50 copies, but if we receive more individual orders we will order some more - we don’t plan to earn money with this, though, so the price will be more or less that offered by the public editor.

Your Indo-European Language Team.

Here it is, Modern Indo-European Grammar Version 2.0, a large file (around 4Mb) to download from our servers or from external file servers.

Because of the recent news about our project in the Spanish media (El Mundo and Spanish Television News “La 2 Noticias”), and the growing interest in the project, we have decided to release now what we had already fixed, instead of waiting till the rest of the grammar was properly revised (especially the verbal system).

As the licence is now GFDL/CC-by-sa, it is not really important whether the grammar is completely correct, as anyone can now copy, improve and redistribute it freely.

Also, we will keep publishing minor revisions (beginning from version 2.0), and hopefully make another major release together with Volume II, Syntax, before this summer.

Thanks to all our readers and contributors.

Enjoy!

Your Indo-European Language Team.