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Nostratic meaning

A conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afroasiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.

Using Nostratic

  • The main meaning on this page 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 Afroasiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.
  • In the example corpus, nostratic often appears in combinations such as: the nostratic, of nostratic, nostratic hypothesis.

Context around Nostratic

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

proto 2× name 2× main 1× afroasiatic 1×

Often after:

language 2× hypothesis 2× main 1× associates 1× pronouns 1× comparative 1× theory 1× concept 1× words 1× derives 1×

Sentence patterns with Nostratic

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

of the nostratic hypothesis 2× a proto nostratic language 1× common among nostratic languages 1× considers afroasiatic nostratic and elamite 1× consonants of nostratic are shown 1× correspondences between nostratic pronouns are 1× focus of nostratic studies 1× introduction to nostratic comparative linguistics 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

the name nostratic 2× a comprehensive introduction 1× consonants the reconstructed 1× defenders of the 1× greenberg basically agreed 1× nostratic main nostratic 1×

Common sentence endings:

the nostratic hypothesis 2× to indo european 2× afroasiatic and dravidian 1× among nostratic languages 1× and shevoroshkin 1988 1× endings or suffixes 1×

Words around Nostratic

Just before it in the word index:

nostrates 2 nostrand 17 nostram 2 nostradamus 21 nostra 31 nostos 5

Just after it in the word index:

nostraticists 3 nostri 3 nostril 32 nostrils 80 nostris 2 nostro 13

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 20 abbv 20 abdalla 20 abdirahman 20 abdulmalik 20 abhimanyu 20

Corpus analysis for Nostratic

  • In this selection, "nostratic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, proto, name, main, language, hypothesis and main stand out and add context to how "nostratic" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include of the nostratic hypothesis and a proto nostratic language. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "nostratic" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with nostratic

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Consonants The reconstructed consonants of Nostratic are shown in the table below. (12 words)

Recently, a consensus has been emerging among proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis. (12 words)

A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics: With Special Reference to Indo-European. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

The name Nostratic derives from the Latin word nostrās, meaning 'our fellow-countryman' (plural: nostrates) and has been defined, since Pedersen, as consisting of those language families that are related to Indo-European. (33 words)

Similarly, Georgiy Starostin (2002) arrives at a tripartite overall grouping: he considers Afroasiatic, Nostratic and Elamite to be roughly equidistant and more closely related to each other than to anything else. (31 words)

Defenders of the Nostratic theory argue that were this to be true, it would remain that in classifying languages genetically, positives count for vastly more than negatives (Ruhlen 1994). (29 words)

Example sentences (15)

Nostratic main Nostratic associates Uralic, Indo-European, Altaic, Dravidian, and various other language families of Asia.

Therefore the many correspondences between Nostratic pronouns are rather strong evidence for the existence of a Proto-Nostratic language.

A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics: With Special Reference to Indo-European.

Consonants The reconstructed consonants of Nostratic are shown in the table below.

Defenders of the Nostratic theory argue that were this to be true, it would remain that in classifying languages genetically, positives count for vastly more than negatives (Ruhlen 1994).

Greenberg basically agreed with the Nostratic concept, though he stressed a deep internal division between its northern 'tier' (his Eurasiatic) and a southern 'tier' (principally Afroasiatic and Dravidian).

Nostratic words were either equal to roots or built by adding endings or suffixes.

Phonology The phonemes tabulated below are commonly reconstructed for the Proto-Nostratic language (Kaiser and Shevoroshkin 1988).

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Recently, a consensus has been emerging among proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis.

Similarly, Georgiy Starostin (2002) arrives at a tripartite overall grouping: he considers Afroasiatic, Nostratic and Elamite to be roughly equidistant and more closely related to each other than to anything else.

The name Nostratic derives from the Latin word nostrās, meaning 'our fellow-countryman' (plural: nostrates) and has been defined, since Pedersen, as consisting of those language families that are related to Indo-European.

The name "Nostratic" is due to Pedersen (1903), derived from the Latin nostrates "fellow countrymen".

The presence of /a/ instead of /o/ is unexplained, but Kaiser and Shevoroshkin (1988) regard this alternation as common among Nostratic languages.

These languages include, among others, Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic—all the core languages of the Nostratic hypothesis.

To understand how the root structures of one language relate to those of another has long been a focus of Nostratic studies.

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Common combinations with nostratic

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "nostratic" in a sentence?
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What does "nostratic" mean?
Nostratic means: A conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afroasiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.
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