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Altaic vs Nostratic - What's the difference?

altaic | nostratic |

As an adjective Altaic

is of or pertaining to a hypothetical grouping of languages that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic and less often the Japanese and Korean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group include Turkish, Mongolian and, more controversially, Japanese and Korean.

As a proper noun Nostratic is

a conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afro-Asiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.

altaic

English

Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to a hypothetical grouping of languages that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic and less often the Japanese and Korean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group include Turkish, Mongolian and, more controversially, Japanese and Korean.

    • Derived terms

    * Ural-Altaic

    nostratic

    English

    (Nostratic languages)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afro-Asiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.

    • See also

    * Indo-European * Aegean * Uralic * Altaic * Chukchi-Kamchatkan * Eskimo-Aleut * Dravidian * Elamite * Sumerian * Kartvelian * Afro-Asiatic

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