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    Holger Pedersen invented the term Nostratic in 1903, although one source said 1931.

Google Search: holger pedersen nostratic Address: http://www.google.com/search?q=holger+pedersen+nostratic ---- Historical linguistics also describes the changes that have taken place within individual languages and, at times, reconstruction of missing words and forms.

The Nostratic hypothesis was first proposed in Holger Pedersen's 1931's book The Discovery of Language: Linguistic Science in the 19th Century", of which I own a copy. The relevant section starts on page 334 in my edition (1st Ed., Harvard University Press). -- Paul Drye

Wup, never mind. I looked in the bibliography of it and found he was quoting himself in an earlier reference -- 1903 it was after all. -- Paul Drye

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