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Altaic was a proposed language grouping that attempted to link together Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese as related families, but this theory is now considered outdated and has been rejected by most modern linguists. It matters historically because it represents an early attempt to understand language relationships across Asia, though current scientific evidence does not support the idea that these languages share a common ancestor recent enough to demonstrate a genuine family connection.
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Vinony's link graph records 936 inbound references to زبانهای آلتایی, and connects out to Ural–Altaic, language family and Tungusic.
It is catalogued under topics including Agglutinative languages, Altaic languages and Central Asia.
Vinony links it to 104 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- sprachbund
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- Ural–Altaic
- Has part
- Tungusic
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- agglutinative language
- topic's main category
- Category:Altaic languages
- Commons category
- Altaic languages
- topic has template
- Template:Altaic languages
- different from
- Altai
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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