Nostratic

(nä stratik)

adjective

designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families

noun

this superfamily of languages

See Nostratic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A hypothetical language proposed as the parent language of Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic-Yukaghir, and perhaps other language families.

Origin:

Origin: Danish nostratisk

Origin: , from Latin nostrās, nostrāt-, belonging to our country or people

Origin: , from noster, our, ours; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots

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