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Robert S. P. Beekes Quotes

1937–2017 Netherlands

Robert Stephen Paul Beekes ( 2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.

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Our knowledge of these migrations [that broke PIE unity] is very limited. On a linguistic basis, little can be said about them.

Elst, Koenraad (2018)

When the IE family had been discovered and scholars sought the land of origin, they initially thought of India because of Sanskrit’s ancientness.

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