Nostraticist

Nostraticist
A practitioner of the linguistic study of the hypothetical Nostratic superfamily of Old World languages

A Nostraticist studies the Eurasiatic (Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic), Karvelian, Dravidian and/or Afro-Asiatic language families

See Also: Germanist, Slavicist

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