In 1786 British orientalist Sir William Jones suggested that Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin must have a common source, which likely no longer existed. In the 19th century the connections between Indo-European languages was further demonstrated with the work of German philologists such as Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm, as well as the Danish philologist Rasmus Rask.
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