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William Jones (philologist)

William Jones (philologist)
William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)

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.

28 September 1746

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