Schleicher's fable

Schleicher's fable is a a reconstructed text in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), published by August Schleicher in 1868. Schleicher was the first scholar to compose a text in PIE. The fable is entitled Avis akvasas ka ("The Sheep and the Horses"). Schleicher's reconstruction assumed that the o/e vocalism was secondary, and his PIE is much more closely based on Sanskrit than modern reconstructions.

External links

• Scheicher's reconstructed text with a literal English gloss
• A message board thread about the fable and the validity or not of Schleicher's reconstruction