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Indo-European Documentation Center

Indo-European Texts

Indo-European texts have been attested for four millennia, written in scripts ranging from a cuneiform script borrowed from a second millennium B.C. north Syrian scribal school, and a local Anatolian kind of hieroglyphic, to the Latin letters that have become our alphabet.

As early as in the second millennium B.C. there were Indo-European text genres as diverse as religious and legal texts, historical texts, letters, literature, and texts intended to preserve knowledge of the current level of technology such as bilingual glossaries and manuals detailing how horses should be trained.

Sample Texts

We provide sample texts, all of them with English translations and almost all of them with glosses, for several Indo-European families of languages; listed from west to east:

For additional Indo-European texts with translations, see the IE Texts page.