The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar（）. A: Jacob Grimm B: Rasmus Rask C: Franz Bopp D: Sir William Jone

The discovery of Indo-European began with the work of ______, who delivered an important paper in 1786, in which he suggested that Sanskrit bore a stronger affinity to Greek and Latin. A: the British scholar Sir William Jones B: the German linguist Franz Bopp C: the Danish scholar Rasmus Rask D: the German scholar Jacob Grimm