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Japonic languages. (sometimes included) Ainu languages. (rarely included) 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.
Spoken languages as the speech norms of communities of speakers must be distinguished from written languages, which are artificial and may not correspond to any spoken form. Where the Altaic languages are concerned, recognition of distinct languages has sometimes been manipulated for political purposes, as have the numbers of their speakers.
Apr 30, 2020 · The Altaic languages — a collection of about 65 languages spoken throughout parts of Asia and Eastern Europe — are, to be sure, part of a messy grouping. In fact, they don’t really fit into the linguistic category of a “language family.”
Altaic languages are spoken across Eurasia by more than 140 million people (the overwhelming majority of whom speak Turkic languages). Most scholars consider Altaic itself to be a family, of proven genetic relationship, though a minority attribute similarities in the languages to borrowings and areal convergence.
Speakers of Altaic languages live over a vast territory that stretches from northeastern Siberia to the Persian Gulf, and from the Baltic Sea to China, with most of them clustering around Central Asia. There is little written data on the historical development of Altaic languages.
May 14, 2018 · Altaic languages Family of languages spoken by c. 80 million people in parts of Turkey, Iran, Mongolia, the former Soviet Union and China. It consists of three branches: Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic. They are named after the Altai Mountains. World Encyclopedia.
Dec 15, 1989 · Until recently, the Altaic language family was considered to consist of three groups: Turkic (to which belong several languages locally spoken in parts of Iran and Afghanistan such as Azeri Turkish, Ḵalaǰ and Uzbek) in the west and center, Mongolian in the center and southeast, and Tungus in the northeast.
