Exciting! After some years working, admittedly vaguely, with what is a preliminary idea of “Nostratic”, I have decided to include an Elamo-Dravidian/Zagrosian branch into this family. The Nostratic languages were most likely birthed in the Caucasus or the Middle/Near East. So far I have focused a lot on Caucasus region. But which who were the original progenitors of Nostratic? Basal West Eurasians?
Elamo-Dravidian consists of Elamite of ancient Iran and the Dravidian language family of India. The family was presumably carried into India by prehistoric Iranians, of whom Indians have substantial ancestry, prior to the Indo-Aryan Indo-European migrations which occurred from around 2000BCE.
What I have on Nostratic so far:
- Proto-Nostratic of the Caucasus/Zagros
And is Afroasiatic of North Africa in? Up next! And who else might there be?
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