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16. Sir William made a bold statement that Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit were
linguistic cousins.
17. Everyone felt speechless at this news, and many doubted it.
18. Sanskrit was also probably a linguistic relative of the Teutonic and Celtic
tongues.
19. Because of his Welsh origin, Sir William added the comment about Celtic.
20. The Welsh people speak a Celtic language to this very day.
21. Sir William also spoke English, of course; English is a Germanic language.
22. Immigrants to Britain from northern Germany and Holland brought an early
version of English with them long ago.
23. Sir William, of course, was quite familiar with all this information.
24. Ever since his presentation, scholars have talked about the Indo-European
family of languages.
25. They call it Indo-European; most of its languages originated in the regions of
India and Europe.
26. Numerous languages constitute this family of languages.
27. Linguists count Russian and all the Slavic languages as members.
28. Other Slavic languages include Polish, Bulgarian, and Croatian.
29. Another relative in the family tree is Iranian.
30. The Celtic section has a number of modern languages.
31. Irish Gaelic is the language of Ireland, and it has a lot of wonderful literature.
32. Many people in Scotland speak Scottish Gaelic as well.
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