It tries hard to distinguish loans between Turkic and Mongolic and between Mongolic and Tungusic from cognates; and it suggests words that occur in Turkic and Tungusic but not in Mongolic. Furthermore, gender distinctions are absent; there is no grammatical gender, and so-called feminine endings are few. 1993. [9], Micro-Altaic includes about 66 living languages,[10] to which Macro-Altaic would add Korean, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages for a total of about 74. 2010. – Kitan has /dol/ "7". "The situation therefore is very close, e.g. 2003:224). The development of a family tree of languages that notes the relative distance of the splits that occur in it. This page was last modified on 6 January 2016, at 16:48. [34] This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European (4000 to 7,000 BC according to several hypotheses[35]) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic (c. 10,000 BC[36] or 11,000 to 16,000 BC[37] according to different sources). They are named after the Altai Mountains. 6 This happened "in syllables with original high pitch" (Starostin et al. altaische Sprachen", 'Remarks on the relationship of the so-called Altaic languages'.
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. Most of the evidence for including the Uralic and Altaic languages in one language family is based on similarities of language structure rather than on … Infoplease is part of the FEN Learning family of educational and reference sites for parents, teachers and students. [1][2][3][4] Various versions included the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages. 12 "(the prefixed i- is somewhat unclear: it is also used as a separate word meaning ‘fifty’, but the historical root here is no doubt *tu-)" (Starostin et al. In 1857, the Austrian scholar Anton Boller suggested adding Japanese to the Ural–Altaic family. However, while the Ural–Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has generally been abandoned by linguists. "The truth about Strahlenberg's classification of the languages of Northeastern Eurasia.". : "Telling general linguists about Altaic", https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/w/index.php?title=Altaic_languages&oldid=4733170. Because of this, he has really hard opinions about AP Style. Japonic has commonly been linked to Korean (eg Samuel Martin 1966), and in 1971 Roy Miller suggested relating it to both Korean and Altaic. "When cognates proved not to be valid, Altaic was abandoned, and the received view now is that Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic are unrelated." Matthias Castrén, a Finnish linguist, claimed they were part of an even larger language family: the Ural-Altaic language family. However, it has also added /h/ in front of words for which no initial consonant (except in some cases /ŋ/, as expected) can be reconstructed for Proto-Altaic; therefore, and because it would make them dependent on whether Khalaj happens to have preserved any given root, Starostin et al. Most of the evidence for including the Uralic and Altaic languages in one language family is based on similarities of language structure rather than on a common core of inherited vocabulary. According to the best-known classification of Altaic, it consists of the Turkic languages, Mongolic, and the Tungusic languages.
