A bridge between Asia and Europe: the Indo-Europeans according to Georges Dumézil

January 2006 The Indo-Europeans were only discovered just over two centuries ago. The English scientist, W. Jones, who was staying in India at the end of the 18th century, put forth an Indo-European hypothesis based on the lexical and grammatical similarities that he observed between classical langu...

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Main Author: Dubuisson, Daniel
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: CNRS Éditions 2019
Subjects:
politique
économie
Pacifique
Asian Studies
Political Science
POL054000
JPA
Iceland
Online Access:http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/12675
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Summary:January 2006 The Indo-Europeans were only discovered just over two centuries ago. The English scientist, W. Jones, who was staying in India at the end of the 18th century, put forth an Indo-European hypothesis based on the lexical and grammatical similarities that he observed between classical languages and Sanskrit. He established that those who would subsequently later to occupy the largest part of Eurasia (from the polar circle to Gibraltar, and from Iceland to Central Asia), the territori.

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