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The following table summarizes the constituent language families of Nostratic, as described by Holger Pedersen, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Sergei Starostin, Allan Bomhard, and Aharon Dolgopolsky.

Linguist Indo-European Afroasiatic Uralic Yukaghir Altaic Kartvelian Dravidian Elamite Eskimo-Aleut Sumerian Chukchi-Kamchatkan Gilyak Etruscan
Pedersen[1] Yes Yes[a] Yes[b] Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No No
Illich-Svitych[2] Yes Yes Yes (Green tickY) Yes Yes Yes TBA No No No No No
Starostin[3] Yes No[c] Yes No Yes Yes Yes TBA Yes No No No No
Bomhard[4] Yes Yes Green tickY[d] Yes Yes Green tickY[e] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dolgopolsky[5] Yes Yes Green tickY[f] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (Green tickY)[g]
  1. ^ Represented by "Semitic"
  2. ^ Pederson does not group Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic into a single Uralic language family
  3. ^ Starostin classes Afroasiatic as a sister language to Nostratic, rather than a daughter language
  4. ^ Bomhard groups Uralic and Yukaghir together as a single language family
  5. ^ Bomhard groups the Elamite language with the Dravidian languages
  6. ^ Dolgopolsky includes Yukaghir as part of Uralic.
  7. ^ Dolgopolsky considers the inclusion of Etruscan "possible".
  1. ^ Nostratic : sifting the evidence. Joe Salmons, Brian D. Joseph, Workshop on Comparative Linguistics. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. 1998. p. 53. ISBN 978-90-272-7571-4. OCLC 769188796.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Nostratic : sifting the evidence. Joe Salmons, Brian D. Joseph, Workshop on Comparative Linguistics. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. 1998. pp. 25, 55. ISBN 978-90-272-7571-4. OCLC 769188796.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Vitaly, Shevoroshkin, (1989). Explorations in language macrofamilies : Materials from the first International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor 8-12 November 1988. Studienverlag Brockmeyer. p. 44. ISBN 3-88339-751-2. OCLC 475815004.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Bomhard, Allan R. (1994). The Nostratic macrofamily : a study in distant linguistic relationship. John C. Kerns. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-013900-6. OCLC 29668003.
  5. ^ Dolgopolsky, Aharon (2012). "Foreword & Introduction" (PDF). Nostratic Dictionary - Third Edition. University of Cambridge.