#  LISTEN!  

 



 This link takes you to a [blog post with an audio clip](https://blog.as.uky.edu/thebhlog/?p=19) illustrating what spoken Indo-European may have sounded like. As you listen to it, read the script and pay attention to specific sounds, like the different varieties of velar fricatives, indicated by the letter *h* with the subscript numerals *1* and *2*, as in the title: *H2óu̯is h1éḱu̯ōs-kwe.* You can find another two sample stories on the same blog. There is an unbroken line of descent between early Indo-European and contemporary English; in other words, this is what "English" sounded like all those centuries ago.

 For the curious:

 Until 2019 the Finnish national radio broadcast [a weekly news summary in classical Latin](http://ohjelmaopas.yle.fi/1-1931339), another dead Indo-European language. It was a labor of love by Latin enthusiasts, and Finnish is not even an IE language! Sadly, it stopped broadcasting a while ago, but episodes are still available. More recently the [Vatican Radio began its own news summary in Latin](https://www.vaticannews.va/en/podcast/vatican-radio-news-in-latin.html). Even a casual listener can detect a difference in pronunciation between the two: the Finnish broadcast reproduces classical pronunciation, while the Vatican uses an Italian, post-classical pronunciation.