It was in the late XVIII century that Sir William Jones created the inter-relationship between European and Middle Eastern languages, as well as the non-European ones, thereby inaugurating the now-famous Teoria of the Indo-European language family.
 stato alla fine del XVIII secolo, che Sir William Jones ha colto il rapporto intercorrente tra le lingue europee e le lingue dell’Asia meridionale, come il sanscrito, inaugurando poi l’ormai famosa teoria della famiglia linguistica indoeuropea.