Allan R. Bomhard (born 1943) is an American linguist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College, and the City University of New York, and served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1966. He currently resides in Florence, South Carolina. He has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed Nostratic and Eurasiatic language families.

Books

• Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.
• Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.
• 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: Ins*ute for the Study of Man, 2011.
• An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship, 2012

with John C. Kerns:

• The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

See also

• Hermann Möller
• Indo-Semitic languages
• Nostratic languages

References