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Dear Max. Thank you for the kind words. Here is a URL about Sir William Jones. I had not realized his background was so impressive.Now I can go hunt for his word list.
http://www.picatype.com/dig/da2/da2aa06.htm
Here is a paragraph from one of his lectures:
"The Sanskcrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more
perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than
either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the
forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,
that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung
from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason,
though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though
with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskcrit; and the old
Persian might be added to the same family..."
Here is another URL about languages. some good stuff, but not as much as I hoped.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/index.html
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