William Jones (philologist)
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William Jones (philologist)
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Sir William Jones was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta in 1784 and continued to expand his knowledge of Eastern languages, particularly Sanskr
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British philologist and scholar (1746–1794)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)
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2001-11-22T18:54:38Z
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2024-09-01T21:33:19Z
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