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Astralcat wrote: I've always been fascinated by the widely held theory that Sanskrit may be the root of all modern European languge eg. Yoga in Sanskrit means 'union' and the English word 'yoke' is said to be a derivation of this. http://mutiny.wordpress.com/20[...]anguages-says-prof-dean-brown/ Sir William Jones a British judge in India in 1786 was the first to conclude that PIE (proto Indo European ) was the common source for Sanskrit , Latin and Greek and probably Celtic, German and Persian too . Reply | with quote |  12th April 2013ce 11:57 In reply to: Re: Gaelic: the language of Eden? (Astralcat) |
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