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The Eurasiatic grouping resembles the older Nostratic groupings of Holger Pedersen and Vladislav Illich-Svitych by including Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic.

It differs by including Nivkh, Japonic, Korean, and Ainu ( which the Nostraticists had excluded from comparison because they are single languages rather than language families ) and in excluding Afroasiatic.

At about this time, Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic.

It was slightly broader than Greenberg's grouping but it also left out Afroasiatic.