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- From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Altaic is a language system that includes the Turkic languages, Mongolic, and the Tungusic languages. That is probably the meaning attributed to "Altaic" by most general linguists. It has disputed language families, but only a few linguists still believe that it existed.simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
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Altaic is a sprachbund (i.e. a linguistic area) and controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Speakers of these languages are currently scattered over most of Asia north of 35
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See moreThe earliest known texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, 720–735 AD. They were deciphered in 1893 by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in a scholarly race with his rival, the German–Russian
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Phonological and grammatical features
The original arguments for grouping the "micro-Altaic" languages...
See more• Altaic at the Linguist List MultiTree Project (not functional as of 2014): Genealogical trees attributed to Ramstedt 1957, Miller 1971, and Poppe 1982
• Swadesh vocabulary lists for Altaic languages Archived 24 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine (from...
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The earliest known reference to a unified language group of Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages is...
See moreThe prehistory of the peoples speaking the "Altaic" languages is largely unknown. Whereas for certain other language families, such as the
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See more• Greenberg, Joseph H. 1997. "Does Altaic exist?" In Irén Hegedus, Peter A. Michalove, and Alexis Manaster Ramer (editors), Indo-European, Nostratic and Beyond: A Festschrift for Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin, Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man,
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