Eurasiatic

Eurasiatic
Of or pertaining to the Eurasiatic group of languages.
2. noun
A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.

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