major linguistic groups of northern Eurasia 1 (with the exception of Yenisseian , included in Dene-Caucasian ), to which  Sergei Starostin added also  Kartvelian  and  Dravidian 2 . Allan Bomhard and Aharon Dolgopolsky  group these languages together with Afro-Asiatic into the so-called Nostratic 3 phylum. Although I use comparative data from these specialists