Here is a premise:
At the conclusion of this vast exercise, done without the aid of computers, there emerged a pattern of familial relationships that linked together languages spoken, in earlier times, from Britain as far east as Chinese Turkestan and from India as far north as Lappland.

Here is a hypothesis:
British languages have deep and hereto unknown ties to Chinese languages.

Is it possible to conclude that if the premise is true, then so is the hypothesis?
OPTIONS:
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it is not possible to tell