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Nostratic

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Nostratic
Nostratic [nä strat′ik]
adj.
designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
n.
this superfamily of languages

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Nos·trat·ic (nə-strătʹĭk) n.
A hypothetical language proposed as the parent language of Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic-Yukaghir, and perhaps other language families.
  [Danish nostratisk, from Latin nostrās, nostrāt-, belonging to our country or people, from noster, our, ours. See nes-2.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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