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- In popular conception, Altaic is often assumed to constitute a language family, or perhaps a phylum, but in reality, it involves a historical, areal, and typological complex of five separate language families of different origins—Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic—to which Uralic also adheres in the transcontinental context of Ural-Altaic.
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Altaic ( / ælˈteɪ.ɪk /) is a controversial proposed language family [2] that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.
Apr 30, 2020 · The Altaic languages comprise three language families: Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic. Therefore, we’ll break the languages down by family.
Jul 22, 2020 · The Altaic Language Family — This was at one point considered a unified language family, but most linguists agree that the Altaic languages are actually three separate language families: Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic.
Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Altaic, Uraltaic, or Turanic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages.
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
Mar 31, 2023 · The Altaic language family is a group of languages that originated in and around the Altai Mountains in Central Asia. The term was coined in 1845 (in Swedish: Altaisk) by the Finnish linguist...
The Altaic languages include Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic, and sometimes also Korean and Japanese. Common typological features are an agglutinative suffixing word structure, sound harmony, verb-final word order, and the use of numerous nonfinite verb constructions.
