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	Nostratic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nostratic is a highly controversial language "super-family" or "macrofamily" that putatively links many Eurasian language families.
		The term is difficult to pin down, however, as proponents have not agreed on the set of families to include.
		Joseph Greenberg proposed a similar or overlapping macrofamily he called Eurasiatic, and linked it to the Amerind languages of the Americas.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Nostratic (1494 words)

	McDonald Institute: Publications, Nostratic: Examining a Liguistic Macrofamily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Nostratic case was put forward by one of its leading exponents, Professor Aharon Dolgopolsky, supported by some of the leading advocates of the Nostratic hypothesis, and evaluated critically by linguists specializing in the language families concerned.
		Although no generally acceptable conclusion was reached, the general arguments for and against linguistic macrofamilies and long-range comparisons were considered from a range of standpoints.
		This volume will be of interest to historical linguists concerned to examine the claims made for macrofamilies in general and the Nostratic family in particular, as well as to prehistoric archaeologists and molecular geneticists seeking deeper insights into issues underlying the consideration of the prehistory of languages.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /Publications/nettle.htm (228 words)

	Nostratic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Greenberg proposed a similar or overlapping macrofamily which he called Eurasiatic, and which he linked to the Amerind languages of the Americas.
		On the face of it, though, it is logical that the family tree could converge further, and that some or all language families could be related to one another.
		Allan R. Bomhard and John C. Kerns, The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nostratic (1956 words)

	Nostratic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The term is difficult to pin however as proponents have not agreed on set of families to include.
		Joseph Greenberg proposed a similar or overlapping macrofamily called Eurasiatic and linked it to the languages of the Americas.
		The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)
	www.freeglossary.com /Nostratic (1346 words)

	The Nostratic linguistic macrofamily
		Both scholars came to the conclusion that the data at their disposal bore witness to the existence of a language macrofamily, whose members are Semitic (a branch of Afro-Asiatic), Kartvelian (South Caucasian), Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic; later acquaintance with the Dravidian Etymological Dictionary by Th.
		In 1964 A. Dolgopolsky and V. Illych-Svitych were introduced to one another by V. Dybo, who had been aware for some time of their results, but had kept them in secret for the "purity of the experiment." Since that time both linguists worked in close contact until the untimely death of V. Illich-Svitych in 1967.
		Within the macrofamily those idioms of the New World seem to have specific isoglosses with the Altaic languages.
	popgen.well.ox.ac.uk /eurasia/htdocs/nostratic.html (964 words)

	Evolution of Human Languages
		John Bengtson (Association for the Study of Language In Pre-History) concluded the section on Sino-Caucasian morphology with a description of certain morphological features of the Na-Dene languages; again, similarities between the Na-Dene system and the North Caucasian and Yennisseian systems were traced, confirming with near certainty the close relationship between these families.
		Finally, Timothy Usher (SFI Institute) gave a talk on the observed similarities between Sino-Tibetan and the Austric macrofamily (particularly the Mon-Khmer subbranch).
		He presented a large list of lexical parallels between the two families, stating that due to their huge number and close phonetic resemblance, they cannot be coincidental.
	ehl.santafe.edu /ehlmeet3.htm (221 words)

	Diversity, taxonomy and evolution of medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily -- Riveros-Rosas et al. 270 (16): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The three main clusters of subfamilies (macrofamilies) are indicated with roman numerals and the name of each family and subfamily is abbreviated.
		Grey pins mark the boundaries of protein families; yellow-capped pins mark the boundaries of protein macrofamilies.
		Macrofamilies represent probable ancestral groups that might be tracked to the last universal common ancestor; in addition, they show a wide phylogenetic range, with protein members in archaea, bacteria and eukarya.
	content.febsjournal.org /cgi/content/full/270/16/3309 (8559 words)

	Genetic Evidence on Origin and Dispersal of Human Populations Speaking Languages of the Nostratic Macrofamily -- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Genetic Evidence on Origin and Dispersal of Human Populations Speaking Languages of the Nostratic Macrofamily -- Barbujani and Pilastro 90 (10): 4670 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
		Here we show that genetic variation among Indo-European, Elamo-Dravidian, and Altaic speakers (grouped by some linguists in the Nostratic macrofamily) supports this hypothesis, whereas the evidence on Afro-Asiatic speakers is ambiguous.
		Gene-frequency clines within these linguistic families suggest that language diffusion was largely associated with population movements rather than with purely cultural transmission.
	intl.pnas.org /cgi/content/abstract/90/10/4670 (294 words)

	Amazon.com: Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption (Monograph Series): Books: Nicky Milner,Preston Miracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The focus of the symposium was, "The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Paleontology", Aharon Dolgopolsky, 1998.
		This is followed by seven chapters on "The Composition and Reconstruction of Nostratic" (130 pages), five chapters on "Methodological Considerations" (110 pages) and six chapters on "Perspectives from the Daughter Families" (115 pages), with a concluding chapter written by Daniel Nettle, titled "Towards A Future History of Macrofamily Research" (15 pages).
		In short, the casual reader may find much of the technical detail heavy going, although there are interesting areas throughout for those who want to obtain an idea of the current state of Nostratic research.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0951942085?v=glance (1073 words)

	Language: Its Structure and Use
		Whether or not there exists a single macrofamily from which several other families derived is a fascinating but controversial question.
		Not everybody agrees on the existence of such macrofamily or, if so, on language families that belong to the Nostratic macrofamily.
		They provide interesting discussions and reading lists on the Nostratic hypothesis: The Nostratic Linguistic Macrofamily, Mother Tongue, the newsletter of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and Nostratic Bibliography.
	english.heinle.com /finegan/ch13/know.html (594 words)

	McDonald Institute: Publications, Nostratic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nostratic is a hypothetical macrofamily of languages which includes Indo-European, Hamito-Semitic (Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic), Kartvelian (Georgian and related languages), Uralic (Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic, Yukagir), Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, Japanese), and Dravidian (in India).
		The hypothesis is based on more than 2000 common roots and affixes, in which regular sound correspondences are observed.
		Introduction: the Nostratic Hypothesis, Linguistic Macrofamilies and Prehistoric Studies
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /Publications/Nostrat.htm (235 words)

	Journal of Indo-European Studies - Index - V
		Review ofThe Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Paleontology (1998), by Aharon Dolgopolsky.
		Review of Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (1999), by Colin Renfrew & Daniel Nettle, eds.
		Review of America Past, America Present: Genes nd Languages in the Americas and Beyond (2000), by Colin Renfrew, ed.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/jies/jies_index/V.html (183 words)

	Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) - Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Statistically evaluating the Central Solomons group of Greenberg’s Indo-Pacific Hypothesis using randomization
		Of Greenberg's grand genealogical hypotheses, the Indo-Pacific macrofamily has probably attracted the least attention, either positive or negative.
		But whatever the status of the macrofamilies themselves, even Greenberg sceptics are happy to concede the authenticity of some of the smaller groups identified within them.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /research/glic/dunn060322.html (405 words)

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