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Apr 30, 2020 · It’s generally agreed upon today that the Altaic languages don’t meet the definition of a language family. To be a “family,” all of the languages have to come from a single ancestor. Think of it as a strict royal bloodline where the only way to be an official member is to be a direct descendant of a single proto-language.
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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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 M. A ...
Feb 25, 2014 · The term “Altaic” is commonly applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia and the Far East, that share a significant number of structural and morphemic similarities. Depending on whether these similarities are explained by a common genetic origin or prolonged periods of convergent development, one might ...
Subscribe. “Altaic” is a common term applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia and the Far East and sharing a large, most likely non-coincidental, number of structural and morphemic similarities. At the onset of Altaic studies, these similarities were ascribed to the one-time existence of an ancestral ...
Altaic is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. The hypothetical language family has long been rejected by most comparative linguists, although it continues to be supported by a small but stable scholarly minority. Speakers of the constituent languages are currently ...
