Eurasiatic

Eurasiatic is a hypothetic language family.

The name 'Eurasiatic' was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg for a family consisting of:

• Indo-European
• Etruscan
• Uralic
• Altaic
• Korean
• Japanese
• Ainu
• Nivkh (Gilyak)
• Yukaghir
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan
• Eskimo-Aleut

Greenberg's work, however, is dismissed by many linguists due to his method of mass lexical comparison which only registers similarities but not regular correspondences.

Many adherents of the Nostratic hypothesis use the term 'Eurasiatic' for a branch of Nostratic that includes Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic, but not necessarily all the other languages listed by Greenberg.

See also

• Nostratic
• Mitian
• Wikipedia: Eurasiatic languages