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Also Known As Indogermanisch Indo-European language • Indogermanic Indo-European language

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Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Pott, August
August Pott
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Kurylowicz
Jerzy Kuryłowicz
Polish linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
Julius Pokorny
European linguist

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Languages & Alphabets