by Edwin D. Floyd
In recent years, fairly convincing linguistic and archaeological evidence has emerged to locate the Indo-European "homeland" (the location from which languages such as Greek, Latin, and English spread) in northeastern Anatolia, around 3500-3000 B.C. Drawing on this new evidence and on his own work on Indo-European poetics, Dr. Floyd will investigate the process of Indo-European dispersal in the fourth and third millennia B.C.
"The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family..."
The foregoing comment, along with more information, can be found in a tribute to Sir William Jones.