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Wilhelm Siegling
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analysis of Tocharian grammar
- In Indo-European languages: Sanskrit studies and their impact
…German scholars Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling in 1908. The Norwegian Assyriologist Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon recognized Hittite as Indo-European on the basis of two letters found in Egypt (translated in Die zwei Arzawa-briefe [1902; “The Two Arzawa Letters”]), but his views were not generally accepted until 1915, when Bedřich Hrozný…
Read More - In Tocharian languages: Discovery and decipherment
…German scholars Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling in 1908 in an article that also established the presence of the two languages (sometimes referred to as dialects), provisionally called A and B. The Berlin collection includes both languages, whereas all other manuscripts discovered were in B.
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