Allan R. Bomhard (born July 10 1943)[1] is an American independent scholar writing books and predominantly self-published papers in the field of comparative linguistics and Buddhism.
As a prominent proponent of Nostratic, Bomhards work has received attention from mainstream linguists and occasionally been discussed in linguistic sources.
The majority of his work has been self published or printed thorough vanity presses.
[2][3] 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.
[4] Russian linguists Georgiy Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".