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Allan R. Bomhard, Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2008), Review

In the second half of the 20th century, were presented many studies devoted to demonstrate a genetic relationship among some indigenous linguistic families of northern and central Eurasia, Near East and Northern Africa; the postulated macro-family was called Nostratic, a term created in 1903 by the Danish linguist Holger Pedersen (from the Latin word ''nostras'', meaning 'our fellow-countryman', plural: ''nostrates''). Evidence in favor of Nostratic is based on regular correspondences among proto-languages spread through the aforementioned areas, etymological forms referring to a basic lexicon, and reconstructed grammatical morphemes.

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