Eurasiatic languages

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The Eurasiatic languages are a hypotetical language group from which allegedly descend several language families of Europe and Asia, including Indo-European languages, Uralic and Altaic. It was developed by Joseph Greenberg. The theory was rejected by many linguists, mainly due to the controversial method used, mass lexical comparison.

Greenberg's list of Eurasistic languages includes:

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

See also

• Amerind languages
• Nostratic language
• Indo-Uralic languages
• Uralo-Siberian languages

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