Eurasian
Eurasiatic

The idea of a Eurasiatic superfamily dates back more than 100 years.

The Eurasiatic group is further divided into five related alphabets:

Researchers discover statistical evidence for the proposed Eurasiatic language superfamily, dating back 15,000 years.

Eurasiatic and another proposed macrofamily Nostratic often include many of the same language families.

The are no records of Tarsophlebiidae from any fossil locality outside the Eurasiatic region.

Joseph Greenberg (2000-2002) argued for the inclusion of Japanese in his proposed Eurasiatic language family.

In 2013, Mark Pagel and three colleagues published what they believe to be statistical evidence for a Eurasiatic language family.

Some proposals group Eurasiatic with even larger macrofamilies, such as Nostratic, which also meet mainstream criticism.

Greenberg's Eurasiatic hypothesis has been dismissed by many linguists, often on the ground that his research on mass comparison is unreliable.

He supported the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses.

He regarded "Korean-Japanese-Ainu" as forming a distinct subgroup within his proposed Eurasiatic language family.

The Nivkh language is included in the controversial Eurasiatic languages hypothesis by Joseph Greenberg.

While the Eurasiatic hypothesis has been well received by Nostraticists and some Indo-Europeanists, it remains very controversial.

If Dr. Greenberg's Eurasiatic proposal is at first no more favorably received than his Amerindian classification, he will not be surprised.

According to him the breakthrough came with the publication of the first volume of Joseph Greenberg's Eurasiatic work,Greenberg 2000 .

From the 1990s, interest in a relationship between the Uralic and Altaic families has been revived in the context of the Eurasiatic hypothesis.

LWED likewise views Eurasiatic as a subfamily of Nostratic.

Meanwhile, Dr. Ruhlen believes that if the Eurasiatic grouping is accepted, the world's 5,000 languages can be seen to fall into just 12 superfamilies.

His colleague and former student Merritt Ruhlen ensured the publication of the final volume of his Eurasiatic work (2002) after his death.

Dr. Greenberg's Eurasiatic overlaps with Nostratic but also includes other languages like Japanese and Eskimo-Aleut.

Bomhard (2008) treats Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European as Eurasiatic daughter groups on equal footing.

Merritt Ruhlen suggests that the geographical distribution of Eurasiatic shows that it and the Dené-Caucasian family are the result of separate migrations.

Greenberg also assigns Gilyak (Nivkh) and Yukaghir, sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic family.

In 1998, Joseph Greenberg extended his work in mass comparison, a methodology he first proposed in the 1950s to categorize the languages of Africa, to suggest a Eurasiatic language.

Many Nostratic theorists have accepted Eurasiatic as a subgroup within Nostratic alongside Afroasiatic, Kartvelian, and Dravidian.