Nostratic is said to be made up with Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian/Elamite, and (I think) Southern Caucasian. Dene-Caucasian (another main superfamily) is represented by Northern Caucasian, Na-Dene (North America), and Sino-Tibetan. Austric (yet another) is said to subsume Austro-Asiatic (home to the Munda languages and Mon-Khmer), Austronesian, Hmong-Mien (IIRC), and Tai. I could be wrong on the Tai.

These families aren't accepted by everyone, tho.

And I just feel I need to note here that I think all the time and money that goes to researching these super-families might be better spent squaring the circle, constructing a perpetuum mobile, finding Free Energy and the Philosopher's Stone, calculating the last decimal of п, or debating on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

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