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Nostratic

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Nos·trat·ic  (n-strtk)
n.
A hypothetical language proposed as the parent language of Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic-Yukaghir, and perhaps other language families.

[Danish nostratisk, from Latin nostrs, nostrt-, belonging to our country or people, from noster, our, ours; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.]


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6 P143 Originally interested in whether Indo-European might be related to Semitic languages, the author has since become a strong proponent of the theory that Indo-European is one of many daughter languages of a Nostratic macrofamily of Afrasian, Elamo-Dravidian, Kartvelian, and Eurasiatic.
In this connection mention should also be made of the nostratic theory, of the typology of linguistic universals, and of the Sprachbunde.
It has been possible to calculate thc distances between the languages of the Finno-Ugric family (Tambovtsev 1983, 1991b, 1992a) and to compute the compactness of the Turkic, Tungus-Manchurian, Paleo-Asiatic, Finno-Ugric, and Indo-European language families and even such super-families as Ural-Altaic and Nostratic (Tombovtsev 1990a).
 
 
 
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