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then took a definite scientific approach with the works of the Neogrammarians in the late 19th-early 20th century. Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) and Karl Verner (1846-1896), and the German scholar Jacob Grimm (1785-1863). The first linguist to offer reconstructed forms from a proto-language was August Schleicher

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