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According to the passage, the beginnings of historical linguistics ----.
In 1786 Sir William Jones, a British judge serving in India,
made a discovery that transformed knowledge about
prehistory and began the formal study of historical
linguistics. Turning his spare time towards the study of
Sanskrit, the ancient language from which the
predominant languages of the South Asian subcontinent
derive, Jones discovered that Sanskrit shares features of
grammar and vocabulary with Latin and ancient Greek to
an extent inexplicable by sheer coincidence. His interest
further aroused, he then examined the early Germanic
language called “Gothic”, the ancient Celtic languages of
Europe, and Old Persian, and found that they, too,
exhibited marked similarities to Sanskrit. He concluded
that all these languages must have evolved from a
common but now-extinct linguistic source. In the early
nineteenth century, both this ancient language and the
later languages that derived from it, were labelled “Indo-
European,” reflecting their wide distribution from India and
Ireland.