![]() Some have even proposed combining these into 'super families' or even the idea of a single original language from which all super-families originate. ![]() Over the past century linguists have tried with some success to classify all the world's languages into a number of 'families'. ![]() The word "Indo-European" was later developed to describe what was seen as a family of languages, going back to a single "proto-Indo-European language" spoken in central Asia some 5-6,000 years ago. In 1786 the scholar and jurist Sir William Jones, in a lecture at the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta, first proposed that many of the oldest languages in both Europe and Asia, including Greek, Latin, Persian, and Sanskrit, were so similar that they must have stemmed from a common source. Since the 1500s European visitors to India noticed the similarities between most European and many Indian languages.
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