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    Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was hypothesized in 1786 by Sir William Jones who observed similarities between languages from different geographical areas and proposed they must have descended from a common ancestor language. This established the concept of a Proto-Indo-European language as the original form and source of modern Indo-European languages in both India and Europe based on similar features found in descendant language records.

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    Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was hypothesized in 1786 by Sir William Jones who observed similarities between languages from different geographical areas and proposed they must have descended from a common ancestor language. This established the concept of a Proto-Indo-European language as the original form and source of modern Indo-European languages in both India and Europe based on similar features found in descendant language records.

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    LANGUAGE HISTORY of Linguistic & Development

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    Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was hypothesized in 1786 by Sir William Jones who observed similarities between languages from different geographical areas and proposed they must have descended from a common ancestor language. This established the concept of a Proto-Indo-European language as the original form and source of modern Indo-European languages in both India and Europe based on similar features found in descendant language records.

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    LANGUAGE HISTORY

    FAMILY TRESS
    • In 1786, a British government official in India called Sir William Jones
    - that a number of languages from very different geographical areas must have some
    common ancestor. This is hypothesized on the basis of similar features existing in records
    of languages that were believed to be descendants.
    • It incorporated the notion that this was the original form (Proto) of a language that was
    the source of modern languages in the Indian sub-continent (Indo) and in Europe
    (European).
    - Proto-Indo-European (PIE) established as some type of ‘great-great-grand mother

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