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'''Allan R. Bomhard''' is an American [[scholar#Independent_scholars | independent scholar]] publishing in the field of [[Comparative linguistics|comparative linguistics]]. He is part of a small group of proponents of the [[Nostratic hypothesis]], according to which the [[Indo-European languages]], [[Uralic languages]], [[Altaic languages]], and [[Afroasiatic languages]] would all belong to a larger [[macrofamily]].<ref name=nyt>((cite news|title=Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/27/science/linguists-debating-deepest-roots-of-language.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=George|last=Johnson|date=June 27, 1995))</ref> The theory is widely rejected by mainstream linguists as a [[fringe theory]].<ref name=nyt/><ref>((cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |title=Historical Linguistics: An Introduction |date=1998 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=978-0262518499 |page=311|quote="Postulated remote relationships such as Amerind, Nostratic and Proto-World have been featured in newspapers, magazines and television documentaries, and yet these same proposals have been rejected by most mainstream historical linguistics"))</ref> Among  Nostratists, he has been described as "a maximalist who casts his nets as widely as possible" among far-flung languages not generally believed to be related.<ref>((cite magazine|title=Was There an ancient superlanguage called Nostratic?|magazine=[[Mosaic (magazine)|Mosaic]]|date=November 9, 2022|author=[[Philologos]]|url=https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2022/11/was-there-an-ancient-superlanguage-called-nostratic/))</ref>

Russian linguists [[Georgiy Starostin]], Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".<ref>((cite journal |last1=Starostin |first1=George | author1-link = Georgiy Starostin | last2 = Zhivlov | first2 = Mikhail | last3 = Kassian | first3 = Alexei |title=The "Nostratic" roots of Indo-European: from Illich-Svitych to Dolgopolsky to future horizons |journal=Slovo a Slovesnost | url = https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.730add89-51a2-446e-9330-c2d163e62180 |date=2016 | volume = 77 | issue = 4 |page=403))</ref>

==Books==
*''Toward Proto-Nostratic:  A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic''. Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, 1984.<ref>Reviews of ''Toward Proto-Nostratic'':
* ((Cite journal |last=Kaye |first=Alan S. |author-link=Alan S. Kaye |date=1985 |title=Review |journal=Language |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=887–891 |doi=10.2307/414496 |issn=0097-8507 |jstor=414496))
* ((cite journal |last=Levin |first=Saul |date=January 1985 |title=Review |journal=Diachronica |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=97–104 |doi=10.1075/dia.2.1.09lev))
* ((Cite journal |last=Helimski |first=Eugene |author-link=Eugene Helimski |date=1987 |title=A "New Approach" to Nostratic Comparison |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=97–100 |doi=10.2307/602956 |issn=0003-0279 |jstor=602956))
*((cite journal | last = Palmaitis | first = Mykolas L. | date = December 1986 | doi = 10.1515/9783110243338.305 | journal = Indogermanische Forschungen | pages = 305–317 | title = Besprechungsaufsätze: New Contributions to "Proto-Nostratic" | url = https://www.academia.edu/41825619))</ref>
*''Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis.'' Charleston:  SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.<ref>Reviews of ''Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis'':
* ((cite journal |last=McCall |first=Daniel F. |year=1997 |title=Rev. of Bomhard, ''Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis'' |journal=[[International Journal of African Historical Studies]] |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=473–76 |doi=10.2307/221291 |jstor=221291))
* ((cite journal |last=Sidwell |first=Paul J. |author-link=Paul Sidwell |date=January 1998 |title=Review |journal=Diachronica |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=341–348 |doi=10.1075/dia.15.2.09sid))
* ((cite journal|last=Gluhak|first=Alemko|journal=Filologija|volume=29|year= 1997|language=hr|url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/157496|title=Allan R. Bomhard, ''Indo-European and the Nostratic hypothesis''|pages=200–205))
* ((cite journal|last=Matthews|first=S.|journal=Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York|year=1998|volume=49|issue=1|page=113|title=Review of ''Indo-European and the Nostratic hypothesis''))</ref>
*''Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic:  Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary''.  Leiden and Boston: Brill.  2 vols, 2008.
*''The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011: Trends and Issues''. Washington, DC:  Institute for the Study of Man, 2011.<ref>((Cite journal |last=Greppin |first=John A.C. |author-link=John A. C. Greppin |date=2017 |title=Review of ''The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011''|url=https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/5561/4201 |journal=Prace Językoznawcze |volume=XIX |issue=3 |pages=235–250 |issn=1509-5304))</ref>
*''An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language''.  Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship, 2012.
*''A Sketch of Proto-Indo-Anatolian Phonology''. Florence, SC USA, 2024.

with John C. Kerns:
*''The Nostratic Macrofamily:  A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship''.  Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.<ref>Reviews of ''The Nostratic Macrofamily'':
* ((cite journal |last=Orel |first=Vladimir |author-link=Vladimir Orel |year=1996 |title=Rev. of Bomhard and Kerns, ''The Nostratic Macrofamily'' |journal=[[Anthropological Linguistics (journal)|Anthropological Linguistics]] |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=155–58 |jstor=30028451))
* ((Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |author-link=Lyle Campbell |date=1996 |title=Review of The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship |journal=Language |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=656–657 |doi=10.2307/416301 |issn=0097-8507 |jstor=416301))
*((Cite journal |last=Picard |first=Marc |date=March 1996 |title=Review |journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics |language=en |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=62–65 |doi=10.1017/S0008413100020284 |s2cid=148709978 |issn=0008-4131))</ref>

with Arnaud Fournet:
*''The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian''. La Garenne Colombes / Charleston, 2010.<ref>((cite journal|title=Review of ''The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian''|first=Alexei|last=Kassian|url=https://jolr.ru/files/(44)jlr2010-4(199-206).pdf|journal=Journal of Language Relationship|volume=4|year=2010|pages=199–211))</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Hermann Möller]], Danish linguist

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://independent.academia.edu/AllanBomhard Allan Bomhard] at [[ResearchGate]]
*[https://www.radikaliai.lt/radikaliai/4598-allan-r-bomhard Allan R. Bomhard: Nostratic linguistics is in full agreement with standard, recognized methodologies], 2019 interview

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