Eurasian languages - the alleged macro-family of languages, which includes many language families of the north, west and south of Eurasia [1] . There are different versions of the Eurasian macrofamily, but usually it includes the Altai , Chukchi-Kamchatka , Eskimo-Aleut , Indo-European and Ural families , and some researchers include the Kartvelian , Dravidian families , as well as Nivkh and Etruscan isolates [2] .
| Eurasian languages | |
|---|---|
| Taxon | macrofamily |
| Ancestral home | Eurasia |
| Status | hypothesis |
| Area | north, west and south of Eurasia |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages โโof Eurasia |
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| Structure | |
| Altai (Mongolian, Tunguska and Turkic), Chukchi-Kamchatka , Eskimo-Aleut , Indo-European and Ural families | |
| Language group codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-5 | - |
Eurasian macrofamily
Sometimes the term is used either as a synonym for the nostratic macro-family [3] , or as one of the subfamilies of the nostratic family.
Notes
- โ Languages โโand countries of the world . Clow.ru:.
- โ Afrasian and Its Closest Relatives: the Borean Hypothesis Harold Fleming .
- โ BES. Linguistics. Euro-Asian languages (Russian) / Yartseva V.N. - 2nd ed. - M .: BDT, 1998.