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Also Known As | Indogermanisch Indo-European language • Indogermanic Indo-European language |
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August Fick
German linguist
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Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
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August Schleicher
German linguist
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
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Antoine Meillet
French linguist
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Franz Bopp
German philologist
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August Pott
German linguist
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Hermann Collitz
American linguist
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August Leskien
German linguist
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Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
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Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
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Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
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Jerzy Kuryłowicz
Polish linguist
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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
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Hermann Hirt
German linguist
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Karl Brugmann
German linguist
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Julius Pokorny
European linguist
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