The Classification of Languages 189 much valid historic evidence to suppoit Bopp's teaching (see especially pp 100, 120., 339) is available from the relatively recent history of Indo-European languages The present tense of "to bear," "to carry/5 in the following table, where the Teutonic group is represented by Old High German, illus- trate obvious affinities of conjugation in the Aryan family* ENGLISH I bear (thou bearest) he bears we bear you bear they bear SANSKRIT bharami bharasi bharati bharamas bharata bharanti GREEK (DORIC) LATIN* phero fero phereis fers pherei fert pheromes ferimus pherete fertis pheronti ferunt OLD HIGH GERMAN OLD SLAVONIC biru bera bins beresi bint beretu berames beremu beret berete berant beratu The singular of the present optative of the verb to bey corre- sponding to the use of be in if it be, m three dead languages of the group is SANSKRIT syam syas syat OLD LAI IN siem sies siet GOTHIC sijau sijais sijai From a mass of phonetic, morphological and word-similarities, we thus recognize the unity of the well-defined family called Aryan by Anglo-American, Indo-European by French, and Indo-Germanic by German writers. The last of the three is a misnomer Indeed the family does not keep within the limits indicated by the term Indo- European It is spread out over an enormous belt that stretches almost without interruption from Central Asia to the fringes of westernmost Europe On the European side the terminus is Celtic, and on the Asiatic, Tokhanan* a tongue once spoken by the inhabitants of Eastern Turkestan and recently (1906) unearthed in documents written over a thousand years ago The undeniable similarities between these languages suggest that they are all representatives of a single earlier one which must have been spoken by some community, at some place and at some tune in the prehistoric past. The idiom of the far-flung Impenwn Romanian began * The initial / sound m many Latin words corresponds to b in Teutonic Sj cf Latin frater} English "brother