The Language Families
How these connect
Sir William Jones and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.
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The Third Anniversary Discourse of 1786 stated the observation the method was built to test - that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin share verb roots and grammatical forms too systematically for accident - without itself supplying the regular correspondences that became the method.