SINCE 1828
Nostratic
noun
Nos·trat·ic
| \ nȯˈstratik, nä-, nə-, -atik\
plural -s
Definition of Nostratic
: a hypothesized family of languages ancestral to several of the established language families of Eurasia and northern Africa and including in some classifications the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, and Afro-Asiatic languages
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