Radio Sunrise serves the West London community of mixed races; “gujabi” speakers in the mixed of an english suburb.what could these two languages "guyabi" and english have in common? in fact English a “guyabi” as well as other languages of the northern india likeHindi and “gujurati” are related. Ssomething discovered by chance 200 yrs. ago by a multilingual English laywer Sir William Jones.

Collin Renfrew: He was a judge who went out to India in 1783 but he studied languages, oriental languages, before he went and when he got to India he became very interested and learning Sanskrit, which is the language of ancient India, which was first written about 500 AD and then he realised, he made this great discovery, that Sanskrit resembles, in some way, has relationships with Greek and Latin, and other languages and he gave a very famous discourse in which he said these was sprung from some common source.

It´s surprising that no one spotted the resemblesess earlier. Take the numbers again..the sanskrit on the right has a strong resemblense to latin and greek on the left. But while one, two and three are obvious, four and five need a closer look to spot the connection. Linguists have discovered rules that govern how sounds in different languages are related. Look at the words for four this is one of many examples where a word beginning with q in latin say is similar to a greek word beginning with a t and a sanskrit word beginning with k. These sound correspondences reveal how apparently unrelated languages are members of the same family

Don Ringe Jr.: The question is how can you tell that the languages you're looking at reflect a single original language, and therefore form a family. The only way you can do that is by finding systematic similarities between these languages in every area of the grammar, similarities in their sounds, similarities in their inflections, similarities in their syntax, and so forth, and the similarities have to be very precise and they have to be interlocking for the assertion that these languages form a family to be believable. You take a look at an English word like tooth, and see that in Hindi it's dant, and by itself that doesn't mean very much but you take a look at the English ten and it shows up in the Hindi dus. You see the same pattern emerging and you've got an initial t in  English, and an initial d in Hindi. When you find that the word two,  the numeral, in English shows up in Hindi as do and you've got, once again, an initial t in English and an initial d in Hindi and you begin to think that perhaps this is not an accident.

Linguist have now stablished that a whole range of languages streching from Iceland to India form one family called indoeuropean. T hey can even reconstruct and earlier ancestor of this languages called protoindouropean