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Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache
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Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache

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Franz Bopp's work, Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache (1816), was a foundational text in the comparative study of Indo-European languages. Bopp aimed to trace the common origins of Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin, and German, focusing on historical analysis of verb conjugation. This research established the importance of Sanskrit in understanding the relationships between these languages and developed a key technique for language analysis. His subsequent work, Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen (1833–52), further explored the original grammatical structure, phonetic laws, and origins of grammatical forms across these languages.1

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  2. Indo-European languages - Non-Indo-European influence on the family
  3. Indo-European languages - The divergence of Indo-European languages

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