Re: Nostratic family

Hi Manuel Rosario,
Piotr is one of the correct people to ask about the Nostratic family;
Alexander Stolbov is the other. Piotr doesn't recognize a Nostratic
family while Alexander Stolbov does.

In the strict sense of the definition for Nostratic, it is a
hypothetical construct giving a "name" to a proto family. For more
detailed information check out the posts for Alexander and Piotr in
egroup.com under Cybalist.

Briefly, Nostratic is hypothesized to be the common ancestor of several
languages including Indo-European, Uralic and AfroAsiatic. Some
scholars add more language families to the Nostratic group and other
scholars are trying to push the Nostratic clock way back in time.

If you have any more questions, please get back to me.

Best,
Gerry
Manuel Rosario wrote:

>
> Piotr:
> I'm venezuelan and behind me there are some people gathered on Indoeuropean
> studies, despite of we are not linguists. Fortunately I have found this and
> I shall ask you many things to clarify our ideas.
>
> Today's question is about Nostratic family. In short, what is the
> fundamentals of this hypothesis? Was it a language family or rather a human
> race? What are their daughters?
>
> Kind regards
> MR
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