ANTHROP 2G03 Lecture 1: ANTHROP 2G03_Week 1
26 Nov 2020
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The notion of an original language from where sanskrit , classic greek , latin and old persian stemmed out was posed by sir william jones in the eighteenth century . In 1786 , jones notes important correspondences between sanskrit and greek texts. Jones concludes that all these languages come from the same course. He also advances the idea that celtic , [ old ] german , and old persian belongs to the same strand . Jones finds the narratives in medic text he studied in india has a serious of elements common with old ancient texts ; they work in all of the different languages. Humans give meaning to their worldly experience through the. At the time, it was believed that each language generates and is immersed in a. A closed community that has a very distinctive history unfortunately was. European cultures and communities were often seen as higher.
