Which of the following language families originated in the caucasus and ural regions? a. afro-asiatic b. sino-tibetan c. austro-asiatic d. indo-european

D.  Indo-European

Explanation:

With the name of Indo-European languages is known the largest family of languages in the world in number of speakers. The Indo-European family, to which most of the languages of Europe and South Asia belong, includes more than 150 languages spoken by around 3200 million people (approximately 45% of the world population), of which about 1200 million they correspond to speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages and about 950 million speakers of the Romance languages.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion