2.1.1. Unlike other languages reconstructed in the past, Indo-European doesn’t have an old writing system to be revived with. Indo-European dialects have adopted different alphabets during the last millennia, and all of them should be usable today – although the main alphabet for today’s European Union is clearly the Latin one.
2.1.2. This is a summary table of Proto-Indo-European phonemes and their regular corresponding letters in MIE alphabets: Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Perso-Arabic and (alphasyllabary) Devanāgarī.
|
Phoneme |
Greek |
Latin |
Persian |
Armenian |
Cyrillic |
Devan. |
|
[a] |
Α α |
A a |
|
Ա ա |
А а |
अ |
|
[e] |
Ε ε |
E e |
|
Ե ե |
E e |
ए |
|
[o] |
Ο ο |
O o |
|
Ո ո |
О о |
ओ |
|
[] |
Ᾱ ᾱ |
Ā ā |
ﺍ |
Ա ա |
Ā ā |
आ |
|
[] |
Η η |
Ē ē |
|
Է է |
Ē ē |
ऐ |
|
[] |
Ω ω |
Ō ō |
|
Ո ո |
Ō ō |
औ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[i] |
Ι ι |
I i |
|
Ի ի |
И и |
इ |
|
[] |
Ῑ ῑ |
Ī ī |
ی |
Ի ի |
Ӣ ӣ |
ई |
|
[u] |
Υ υ |
U u |
|
Ւ ւ |
У у |
उ |
|
[] |
Ῡ ῡ |
Ū ū |
و |
Ւ ւ |
Ӯ ӯ |
ऊ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[r̥] |
Ρ ρ |
R r |
ﺭ |
Ռ ռ |
Р р |
ऋ (ॠ) |
|
[l̥] |
Λ λ |
L l |
ل |
Լ լ |
Л л |
ऌ(ॡ) |
|
[m̥] |
Μ μ |
M m |
م |
Մ մ |
М м |
म |
|
[n |