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| Sotiris Bletsas |
1786: William Jones delivers his famous Third Anniversary Discourse as president of the Asiatick Society of Bengal. It is here that he makes public his ideas about Latin, Greek, Gothic, and other European languages being genetically related to Sanskrit and Persian.
1887: The USA prohibits the use of Native American languages in schools .
2001: Sotiris Bletsas is given a 15-month suspended jail sentence by a court in Athens after having distributed a leaflet claiming that there exist linguistic minorities in Greece.
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