nostratic |
nostraticist |
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.
As a noun nostraticist is
a practitioner of the linguistic study of the hypothetical nostratic superfamily of old world languages, especially a proponent of the existence of this superfamily.