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    The Altaic (/ælˈteɪ.ɪk/) languages consist of the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic and Japonic...
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    Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages. It is now generally agreed that even the Altaic languages do not share a common descent: the similarities...
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    one. Altaic languages List of Turkic languages List of Turkic-languages poets List of Ukrainian words of Turkic origin Middle Turkic languages Old Turkic...
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    the Koreanic languages share more similarities with the Paleosiberian languages than with the Altaic languages. The extinct Rouran language of Mongolia...
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  • Koreanic languages are sometimes included in the now largely discredited Altaic family. The currently most supported view is that the Japonic languages (sometimes...
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    initially in native words, a typological characteristic shared with "Altaic" languages. Some, but not all, occurrences of /l/ are attributed to lenition...
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    most 'Altaic' languages. Contrasts with the presence of abundant consonant clusters in Nivkh, as well as in the Indo-European and Salishan languages. Canonically...
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  • Look up Altaic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Altaic languages is a hypothetical language family that was proposed to include the Turkic, Mongolian...
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  • Etymological dictionary (category CS1 Danish-language sources (da))
    Reconstruction. Leiden: Brill, 1995. Altaic Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, & Oleg Mudrak. Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Celtic...
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    The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe...
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    Many Tungusic languages are endangered. There are approximately 75,000 native speakers of the dozen living languages of the Tungusic language family. The...
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    Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Proto-Human language Ural–Altaic languages Uralo-Siberian languages ^A The 23 words are (listed in order of cognate...
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  • Roy Andrew Miller (category Linguists of Altaic languages)
    including articles on Altaic languages. 1967a. The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle. 1971. Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages. Chicago: University...
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    as part of the controversial Altaic family. Following Sergei Starostin, Martine Robbeets suggested that Mongolic languages belong to a "Transeurasian"...
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    Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...
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  • American language families Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia Caucasian languages Distribution of the Uralic, Altaic, and Yukaghir languages The...
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    Inflection (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Manchu-Tungus—are agglutinative. The largest languages are Turkish, Azerbaijani and Uzbek—all Turkic languages. Altaic inflection is, or is developed from, affixing...
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    Sergei Starostin (category Linguists of Altaic languages)
    for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian...
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  • in Core Altaic". In Martine Irma Robbeets; Hubert Cuyckens (eds.). Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages. John Benjamins...
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  • Allan R. Bomhard (category Linguists of Nostratic languages)
    according to which the Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, and Afroasiatic languages would all belong to a larger macrofamily...
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    husbandry, hunting, agriculture, forestry, and mining. The proposed Altaic language family takes its name from this mountain range. ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠢ ‍ᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ ᠨᠢᠷᠤᠭᠤ...
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    "Transeurasian" (= Macro-Altaic) languages, but underwent lexical influence from "para-Austronesian", a presumed sister language of Proto-Austronesian....
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  • Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages is a comparative and etymological dictionary of the hypothetical Altaic language family. It was written by...
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    11116/0000-0007-772B-4. PMC 7612788. PMID 35663512. Denis Sinor. Aspects of Altaic Civilization III. D. Tumen (February 2011). Anthropology of Archaeological...
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    the Korean Language – 韓國語文法總監. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3771-2. Miller, Roy Andrew (1971). Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages. Chicago,...
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    majority of (but not all) comparative linguists. These languages have been grouped under the Altaic language family and contrasted with the Mainland Southeast...
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    Dybo, Anna V.; Mudrak, Oleg A. (2003). Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Leiden: Brill. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)...
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    Turanism (category CS1 Hungarian-language sources (hu))
    groups of Eurasia. It revolves around the abandoned proposal of a Ural-Altaic language family, which hypothesizes that the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and...
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    Iranian toman (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    the Seoul National University, the word 'tumen' found in Altaic languages (a proposed language family, now widely seen as discredited) is "certainly a...
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  • diversity in modern languages, Johanna Nichols—a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley—argued in 1998 that vocal languages must have begun diversifying...
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