nȯˈstrad.ik, nä-, nə-, -atik noun
( -s )
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: modification of Danish nostratisk , from Latin nostrat- , nostras native, of our people (from noster our) + Danish -isk -ish — more at nostrum
: a hypothesized family of languages ancestral to several of the established language families of Eurasia and northern Africa and including in some classifications the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, and Afro-Asiatic languages