Jomo, I know this is hardly the place for it, but… I notice that you posted as follows in October 1999:
“Interestingly, gra means women in Albanian and love in Irish. While maite means love in Basque and women in Brahui.”
…and I just thought I should draw it to your attention that the Serbian word for ‘naked women’ (= ‘gole’), if printed in Cyrillic capitals and inverted by reflection, looks just like the English word ‘LOVE’.
Carry on.
According to The Atlas of Languages edited by Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, and Maria Polinsky, Japanese and Korean are sometimes considered part of the Altaic family. The hypothesized ancestor of the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic languages is the Euroasiatic superfamily. The hypothesized ancestor of the Euroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Kartvelian, and Dravidian families is the Nostratic superfamily. All of the connections are controversial. There are linguists who don’t concede that Korean and Japanese are part of the Altaic family. There are others who accept putting Korean and Japanese in Altaic, but who don’t accept the Euroasiatic hypothesis. There are those who accept the Euroasiatic superfamily but not Nostratic. There are those who accept Nostratic, and some of them throw additional families into it. There are people who have tried to connect Nostratic and various other superfamilies into a family tree with Proto-World at the top.
All these connections are controversial, and we’re not going to solve this question here. This thread ought to be in GD, not GQ, if we’re going to discuss this. We answered the question in the OP long ago.