Rasmus Rask in St. Petersburg: Strange Encounters at the

Rasmus Rask in St. Petersburg:
Strange Encounters at the Dawn
of Indo-European Linguistics
Leonid S. Chekin
When correspondences are found between two
languages in such [“most essential”] words, in fact
so many of them that rules can be deduced for the
shifts of letters from one to the other, a basic
kinship is found between these languages,
especially when they are matched by similarities in
the languages’ structure and system.
(Trans. by Niels Ege)
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