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This monograph presents a groundbreaking exploration into the Nostratic Macrofamily, a concept that proposes a common ancestral language for several of the world's foremost language families. Unveiling the Origins of Human Language: A Groundbreaking Analysis of the Nostratic Macrofamily This monograph presents a groundbreaking exploration into the Nostratic macrofamily, a concept that proposes a common ancestral language for several of the world's foremost language families. The study delves deep into the roots of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic languages, offering a unique perspective on their interconnections and evolutionary paths. The authors examine five pivotal Nostratic etymons from the Swadesh index to illustrate the shared cognitive frameworks of these diverse linguistic groups. This research challenges conventional perspectives on language evolution and introduces new methodologies in cognitive macro-comparative studies. Key to the work is the hypothesis of divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent evolutionary patterns stemming from a common Nostratic origin. Beyond linguistics, this study offers insights into human cognitive development, language formation, and change mechanisms. Dr habil. Yan Kapranov is a Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a Professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests include comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, historical linguistics, corpus-based analysis of multilingual texts, translation studies, and the study of conceptualisation and text-production in religious and educational discourse. Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research. Her research interests include linguistics, translation studies, corpus linguistics, and the textual and conceptual representation of cultural and social processes, with particular emphasis on Holocaust and genocide narratives and historical-educational discourse. Dr Boleslaw Cieslik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of German Linguistics, Institute of Neophilology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. His specialization in Comparative Linguistics, focusing on German languages, places him at the forefront of research in understanding the complexities and historical developments of the Germanic language family.
