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Indo-European Languages This is probably the best known of the language families. It is thought that a "Proto-Indo-European" language was spoken up until about 3000 BCE across Europe and parts of Southeast Asia, when local languages started to evolve from it creating the modern Indo-European family. Much of the genetic theory of language derives from studies of the Indo-European family which began in the 16th century but culminated in 19th century when comparisons were made between European languages and Sanscrit. In 1786 William Jones (1746-94) issued the following address to a meeting of the Bengal Asiatic Society: "The Sanscrit language, whatever its antiquity, is of a wonderful struture; more perfect than Greek, more copious than Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them affinity, both of the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed,...

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