Radio Sunrise serves the West London community of mixed races ____ speakers in the midst of an English _____. What could these two languages, ____ and English, have in common?

 In fact, English and _____, as well as other languages of Northern India like          and _______   are related-  something discovered by chance 200 years ago by an English lawyer, Sir William Jones.

 He was a judge who went out to India in 1783, but he had studied languages, oriental languages, before he went, and when he got to India, he became very interested and learnt ______, which is the language of ancient India, which was first written about 500 A .D., and then he realised, he made this great discovery, that Sanscit  _____in some way, has relationships with Latin and other languages, and he gave a very famous discourse in which he said that these were sprung from some common ______.

It’s surprising that no one ____________ earlier. Take the numbers again, for example, the _____ , on the right, bares a strong resemblance to Latin and Greek, on the left. 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 “t”, or a ______ word beginning with “k”. These sound correspondences can reveal how apparently unrelated languages are members of the same family.

The question is how can you tell that the languages that you’re looking at reflect a single original language and therefore form a family. The only way you can do that is by finding sistematic similarities between these languages in every area of their grammar, similarities in sounds, similartities in their inflexions, in the syntax of the language, and so for, and the similarities have to be very precise, and they have to be _____for the ______ that these languages form a family to be believable. If we look at an English word like“tooth”, and see that _____, and that by itself that doesn’t mean that much, but you take a look at English “ten”, which ends up in Hindi as ____, and the same pattern emerges- you have got an initial “t” in English and and initial “d” in Hindi. When you find that the word “two” though, the new word, in English, shows up in____as “do”, once agin an initial“t” in English and an initial “d” in Hindi. You begin to think that this is not an accident.

Linguists have now established that a whole range of languages, ______ from Ireland to India form one family called Indoeuropean. We can even construct the earlier ancestor of these languages Proto Indoeuropean.