Nostratic

noun

Nos·​trat·​ic

nȯˈstratik,

nä-,

nə-,

-atik

plural -s

: 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

Word History

Etymology

modification of Danish nostratisk, from Latin nostrat-, nostras native, of our people (from noster our) + Danish -isk -ish

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