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	Altaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altaic is a language family which includes 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and Far East.
		One of the puzzles of Altaic languages is the nature of the phonetic coincidence r/l - š/s (z), so-called or rhotacism.
		The Altaic theory is claimed by its opponents to mainly be based on typological similarities, such as vowel harmony, lack of grammatical gender, an agglutinative typology, and loanwords.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altaic (515 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Altaic Languages
		Altaic Languages, family of 65 languages spoken by about 167 million people in around 23 different countries, in a vast area of Eurasia extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east.
		The first Altaic linguistic records date from the 8th century ad and there is evidence that a variety of writing systems were used, the first being that of the Turkic peoples.
		Altaic languages are generally characterized by an agglutinative type of suffixation, and by vowel harmony (that is, only vowels of the same colouring can occur in the same word); the vowels of the suffixes are altered so that they agree with the colour of the root vowel.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563293/Altaic_Languages.html (481 words)

	Altaic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic is a controversial language family including languages spoken by about 250 million people mostly around central Asia.
		The existence of the Altaic family a matter of debate among historical linguists is rejected by many.
		The Altaic family under the name "Tatar" first postulated by Schott in 1849 as family uniting Turkic Mongolian and Tungus; he the name "Altaic" to refer to what now be called Ural-Altaic (a hypothesis generally rejected.) Castrén (1862) forward a similar view but classified Turkic what we would now call Uralic.
	www.freeglossary.com /Altaic_languages (643 words)

	A Brief History of the Japanese Language
		Japanese is currently thought to be a part of the Altaic family of languages, descending from the hypothesized Proto-Altaic language spoken by tribes in early Central Asia.
		Altaic also seems to be similar to Uralic, the language family of such languages as Finnish and Hungarian.
		The Altaic tribes were also not immune to this shake-up, and were scattered: the Turkic speakers to the west, the Mongolian speakers to the east, and the Tungusic speakers to the northeast.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/japanese2.html (842 words)

	altaic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic is a controversial language family including 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, found mostly around central Asia.
		The existence of the Altaic family remains a matter of debate among historical linguists, and is rejected by many.
		However, its opponents explain these as borrowings or mutual influence, arguing that, although Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic families do have similarities, they are the result of intensive borrowing and long contact among speakers.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Altaic_languages.html (322 words)

	Encyclopedia: Altaic languages
		The Turkic languages are a group of related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with estimated 100-130 million native speakers.
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		Rhotacism is 1) the excessive or idiosyncratic use of the consonant r; 2) the conversion of another consonant, often s, into r.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Altaic-languages (1048 words)

	ral-Altaic Languages
		The many Ural-Altaic languages--constituting the Uralic and the Altaic languages--extend from Scandinavia, Hungary, and the Balkans in the west, to the easternmost reaches of the Amur and the island of Sakhalin, and from the Arctic Ocean to central Asia.
		But Altaic is not a language family in the same sense that Uralic is, for laws of correspondence such as those available for Uralic have yet to be discovered in Altaic.
		The grammatical structures of Uralic and Altaic are quite similar, and about 70 words in each group--such as the Finnish kaly, "sister-in-law," and Uigur kalin, "bride" and "daughter-in-law"--appear to be cognates.
	members.tripod.com /~Yukon_2/language2.html (1863 words)

	Altaic on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spoken by over 130 million people, who occupy parts of a territory that stretches from E Europe across the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan to the Pacific Ocean, the Altaic languages fall into three subdivisions: Turkic, Mongolian (see Mongolian languages), and Tungusic.
		Emphatic reduplication in Oroqen and its Altaic context(*).
		Altaic influences on Beijing dialect: the Manchu case.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/altaic.asp (343 words)

	Altaic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic Etymology Online database version of the Altaic Etymological Dictionary by S. Starostin, A. Dybo and O. Mudrak.
		Tungusic and Altaic studies in St.Petersburg Article by Andrej L. Malchukov in the IIAS Newsletter.
		Uralic and Altaic Bibliography of recent publications on Uralic and Altaic linguistics.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Altaic.html (179 words)

	Altaic languages - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic is a putative language family which would include 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia.
		Its proponents consider it to include the Turkic languages, the Mongolian languages and the Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus).
		The Altaic theory is supported by many linguists, but many other linguists (eg Doerfer 1963, Bernard Comrie 1981) do not regard Altaic as a valid group, and see it as three (or more) separate language families.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /altaic_languages.htm (435 words)

	Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The distribution of Altaic language speakers today is a broad arc extending from Turkey in the west through the Central Asian Turkic republics to Xinajiang (China), Mongolia, Manchuria, the Korean peninsula, and Japan in the east.
		According to Altaic linguistic theory, the languages of all these areas are interrelated and descended from the original Altaic language.
		Actually, the linguists in Altaic studies are constantly battling each other over whether Korean and Japanese are properly considered Altaic languages, and the fur and blood fly in their spoken and published broadsides at one another.
	www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca /news_views/archives/2003/Nov03/tours/tours_main.htm (1158 words)

	Altaic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term Altaic refers to the family of languages that includes Mongolian, Turkic and Tungusic.
		In fact, the connection between the members of the Altaic family (Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusic) is not accepted by all linguists and there is even more controversy when Japanese and Korean are included in the family.
		Altaic languages have not received the attention they deserve, and their exact relationship is still puzzling even to the linguists that specialize in them.
	www.concentric.net /~chanska/home/altaic.html (317 words)

	Uralic and Altaic languages on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, other authorities hold that the Uralic and Altaic groups constitute two unconnected and separate language families.
		The Ural-Altaic tongues are spoken by over 150 million people, who inhabit discontinuously a vast area that reaches from E Europe across Russia and Asia to the Pacific Ocean.
		If the Ural-Altaic tongues are regarded as forming one family, this family consists of two subfamilies, the Uralic and the Altaic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/u/urala1lt.asp (695 words)

	Languages : Altaic Family
		The Altaic Family is named after the Alti Mountains, in Central Asia.
		At the two extremes of the Altaic family, Turkish has many Arabic words while Korean and Japanese have many from Chinese.
		Others link the Uralic and Altaic families together.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_altaic.html (422 words)

	Turkish Language and the Native Americans
		In this set of Altaic words, the first two have been used for "father", "ancestor" and "old man" and the last one for "mother" throughout the history by different Altaic groups of peoples.
		With these suppositions, I feel that it would be very appropriate to use the Altaic words "ata", "apa" and "ana" and their derivatives as reference linguistic artefacts to trace the footsteps of the ancestors of Turks and other Altaic peoples.
		In addition to the Altaic words "ata", "apa" and "ana" listed in Table 2, some other living words also point to the existence of a common linguistic kinship between the Altaic languages and the languages of some of the Native peoples of Americas.
	ireland.iol.ie /~afifi/Articles/turkic.htm (4848 words)

	Syntax (from Altaic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The syntax of the Altaic languages has been remarkably stable and resistant to foreign influence.
		The lexical categories of Altaic languages are less distinct than in other families.
		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.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-79999?tocId=79999 (800 words)

	Ural-Altaic Languages Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even the existence of the Altaic language family has become controversial (see Altaic languages), although Uralic is somewhat accepted.
		They suggest that they may instead be related through a larger family, either Nostratic or Eurasiatic, within which Uralic and Altaic are no more closely related to each other than to this macrofamily's other members.
		Both groups follow the principle of vowel harmony, are agglutinative (stringing suffixes, prefixes or both onto a single root) and lack grammatical gender (see noun class).
	www.stardustmemories.com /encyclopedia/Ural-Altaic_languages (515 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Altaic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic Languages, family of languages spoken in a vast area of Eurasia, extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east.
		Linguists once grouped the Uralic languages with the family of Altaic languages in a larger family called Ural-Altaic.
		It is usually included as a separate page or pages at the end of your assignment...
	encarta.msn.com /Altaic_Languages.html (173 words)

	Altaic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Altaic language grouping is controversial and not recognised by all linguists.
		Japanese is Altaic and that Korean may be distantly related to Altaic languages.
		Those that recognise the Altaic family of languages define it as a grouping of languages spoken in Eurasia extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east.
	www.scnt01426.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Articles/Language/Altaic.htm (202 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altaic is composed of both Turkic and Mongolian.
		Altaic (Korean, Japanese, Mongolic, Tungus- Manchu [Evenki], Turkic) Ethnic Interpretations: Mongolian According to Alexeev, located on the coast of Lake Baikal and the surrounding Siberian regions is the Mongolian Family of Buriat = Buriatic people.
		That Mongolian and Turkic are sub groups of the Altaic language is also confirmed in HOLLIS: "the homeland of Altaic is southwestern Siberia and Mongolia".
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/Lecture10.doc (5928 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Altaic
		You have reached the page on Altaic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Altaic is divided into the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic sub-branches.
		updated 6-9-2004 Karakalpak (Ural-Altaic) belongs to the Central Turkic sub-branch of the Kipchak sub-branch of the Northwestern Turkic sub-branch of the Turkic sub-branch of the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/altaiclh.htm (2024 words)

	Altaic loan words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The investigation of lexical parallels between Altaic and Old English may well prove to be one of the most important ways in which we can detect early contact between Altaic and Anglo-Saxon in Inner Asia.
		Few scholars have turned their attention to contact between Altaic and Old English, which has some bearing on the vocabulary of Old English and can shed light on its phonological and semantic change.
		Since for the time being I am not in a position to determine which word is native to Altaic or native to Old English, it is safe to posit that Old English (or a related Indo-European language) was a lender.
	spp.pinyin.info /abstracts/spp065_altaic.html (441 words)

	Inner Asian and Altaic Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Inner Asian and Altaic Studies deal with the history and cultures of the peoples in the steppe, mountain, forest, and oasis areas between China, Russia, western Iran, and Pakistan.
		The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies was established in the fall of 1972 for the purpose of stimulating and integrating instruction and research in these areas.
		Like these, the PhD program in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies is not training in area studies as such but rather a program in an established discipline (i.e., anthropology, art and architecture, history, linguistics, literature, or religious studies) with emphasis on Inner Asia and/or the Altaic languages.
	www.gsas.harvard.edu /programs/degree/innerasia.html (923 words)

	Vocabulary (from Altaic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		In historical times the Altaic peoples were concentrated on the steppe lands of Central Asia, and it is believed that the Altaic protolanguage originated on the steppes in or near the region of the Altai Mountains.
		An example of this characteristic can be seen in the words for numerals in the three families (e.g., ‘two' is qoyar in Classical Mongolian, iki in Turkish, and juwe in Manchu).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-80000?tocId=80000 (785 words)

	LINGUIST List 5.992: Altaic
		And how have they concluded that a binary comparison is reasonable?" Unlike the situation with Altaic, where some people have specifically advocated examining only two languages at a time, the situation in the Americas is simply one of actual practice rather than ideology.
		On the other hand, as noted by Vovin in our discussion, the true Altaic situation seems to be that Turkic, Mongolic, and (Manchu-)Tungusic do nOT form a unit on their own but only with Japanese and Korean.
		As to the relation to Nostratic, the main advocate of this theory, Vladimir M. Illich-Svitych, did express some doubts about Altaic as a unit himself, suggesting that perhaps Turkic, Mongolic, and (Manchu-)Tungusic were daugthers of Nostratic.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/5/5-992.html (773 words)

	The Altaic language family - China History Forum, online chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term "Altaic" itself is derived from the Altai Mountains that separate western Mongolia from China.
		But many linguists question whether the "Altaic" grouping is even valid in the first place.
		And Japanese are similar to ancient korean, like the ancient word for fire in Korea matches with the one in Japan and so on forth, which solidified the claims that Japanese came from Korea.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=537 (1321 words)

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