Nostratic Languages

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nostratic is a proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. The hypothetical ancestral language of the Nostratic family is called Proto-Nostratic, following standard linguistic practice. Proto-Nostratic would necessarily have been spoken at an earlier time than the language families descended from it, which would place it toward the end of the Paleolithic period. Nostratic is sometimes called a macrofamily or a superfamily, but these are not scientific terms: they simply denote a language family that groups two or more other language families and is not (or not yet) generally accepted by those linguists who have concerned themselves with the question.