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Rasmus Rask and

Jakob Grimm
Naomi Bol
Astrid Martínez
Ana Cristina Galindo Q.
Rasmus Kristian Rask,

● Principal founder of the


science of comparative
linguistics.

● grammars and worked on


comparative phonology and
morphology.
● In 1818 ( consonant sounds, words in the Germanic languages)
- Indo-European languages, e.g., the English father, acre, and
the Latin pater, ager.

● Did not occupy himself with historical linguistics - language


as a system

● (derivation and composition)


Jacob Grimm

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