- Nostratic hypothesis proposed by Holgar Pedersen in 1903
- Saw similarities between Semitic, Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic and Eskimo-Aluet languages
- Nostratic is derived from the Latin word nostras, which means 'our countrymen'
- Believes that these languages can be grouped together and have a proto-language
- Idea picked up again by Vladimir Illich-Svitych and Aharon Dolgopolsky in the 1960's
- Believe that the proto-Nostratic was spoken some time before 15,000 BC
- Illich-Svitych and Dolgopolsky group these six language families into one macrofamily called Nostratic: