The Indo-European Language, Pt. 1 | Curious Minds

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English - April 15, 2016 08:59 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
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A surprising discovery made by a William Jones, British judge in India uncovered the existence of an ancient language, the ancestor of an amazing variety of modern languages - from English and French, to the Persian Farsi and Indian Sanskrit. The speakers of this language didn't leave any written evidence behind, but researchers were able to reconstruct it never the less. How? it's a kind of a fairy tale, really... ;-)

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