Nostratic

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Linguists have strongly suggestive, albeit controversial and not definitive, proof of the existence and character of the linguistic predecessor to both the proto-Indo-European language widely believed among linguists to be the root of most of the languages of Europe and India, and a number of other language families that include languages as diverse as Finnish, Estonian, Mongolian, and perhaps even Arabic and Hebrew. The name in the linguistics trade for this proto-language dating back about 12,000 years is Nostratic. Wikipedia discusses this part of the linguistics debate here. One of the most recent wide ranging publications on the topic is here.