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Excerpt from Lessons in English Literature: With a Short Dictionary of British, Irish, and American Authors
Languages are divided into classes or families. The English language is a member of the great indo european family* of languages. The chief branches of the indo-european family, which, includes all the leading languages from the Himalaya mountains In Asia, westward to the Atlantic shores of Europe, are as follows.
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