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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.

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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    nostraticist

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A practitioner of the linguistic study of the hypothetical Nostratic superfamily of Old World languages, especially a proponent of the existence of this superfamily.
    • A Nostraticist studies the Eurasiatic (Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic), Karvelian, Dravidian and/or Afro-Asiatic language families.

    Related terms

    * Germanist * Slavicist