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William Jones

Scholar who identified the shared roots of Indo-European languages

Did you know?He reportedly mastered twenty-eight languages, including Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic, during his career as a judge in India.

Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, scholar and judge.

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Age at death
47
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