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	Altaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altaic is a proposed language family which includes 66 languages [1] spoken by about 348 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and northeast Asia.
		The proponents of Altaic traditionally considered it to include the Turkic languages, the Mongolic languages, the Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus), Japanese, and Korean.
		The Altaic theory is claimed by its opponents to be based mainly on typological similarities, such as vowel harmony, lack of grammatical gender, an agglutinative typology, and shared vocabulary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altaic_languages (657 words)

	Language - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The family consists of a number of subfamilies or branches (groups of languages that descended from a common ancestor, which in turn is a member of a larger group of languages that descended from a common ancestor).
		The family stretches from the eastern edge of Siberia to the Aleutian Islands, and across Alaska and northern Canada to Greenland, where one variety of the Inuit language, Greenlandic, is an official language.
		Languages of the Algonquian and Iroquoian families constitute the major indigenous languages of northeastern North America, while the Siouan family is one of the main families of central North America.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761570647___36/Language.html (2191 words)

	Altaic Languages - ninemsn Encarta
		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.
		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.
		Some scholars group the Altaic languages together with the Uralic languages in a larger Ural-Altaic grouping; recent researchers, however, increasingly believe that too little evidence exists to support such a grouping.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563293/Altaic_Languages.html (481 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.
		The Samoyed languages are the easternmost representatives of Uralic.
		Khalkha is the language of the Mongols of Mongolia, with its capital at Ulan Bator.
	members.tripod.com /~Yukon_2/language2.html (1863 words)

	Ural-Altaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Finno-Permic languages are Komi, Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Mari, Erzya, Moksha, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Northern Sami, Inari Sami, Kildin Sami, Skolt Sami, Ter Sami, Estonian, Finnish (including Meänkieli or Tornedalian Finnish, Kven Finnish, and Ingrian Finnish), Ingrian (Izhorian), Karelian, Lude, Olonets Karelian, Livonian, Veps, Võro, and Votic.
		The Ugric languages are Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi
		Other observations are that both Uralic and Altaic languages follow the principle of vowel harmony, are agglutinative (stringing suffixes, prefixes or both onto a single root), employ SOV word order, and lack grammatical gender (see noun class).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages (986 words)

	Altaic Language Family
		The Altaic language family derives its name from the Altai Mountain region from whence it is believed these languages had originated.
		Speakers of Altaic languages stretch from northeastern Siberia to the Persian Gulf, and from the Baltic Sea to China, with the bulk clustering around central Asia.
		The relationships among these languages remain a matter of debate among historical linguists, and the existence of the Altaic language family continues to be a matter of controversy.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/AltaicLanguageFamily.html (218 words)

	Nationalities in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Its language belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic language family and is close to that of the Tu and Dongxiang ethnic minorities.
		The Kazak language belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic language family.
		The Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan sub-branch of the Tibetan-Myanmese language branch of the Chinese-Tibetan language family.
	www.chinahighlights.com /travelguide/nationalities.htm (6872 words)

	Altaic languages - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		One is that the proposed constituent language families (Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic in the basic theory; with the addition of Korean and Japanese in extended versions) are genetically or 'divergently' related by descent from a common ancestor, 'Proto-Altaic'.
		The Altaic theory is claimed by its opponents to mainly be based on typological similiarities, such as vowel harmony, lack of grammatical gender, an agglutinative typology, and loanwords.
		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.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=824 (414 words)

	Turkish language - All About Turkey
		Turkic languages are often grouped with Mongolian and Tungusic languages in the Altaic language family.
		Strictly speaking, the "Turkish" languages spoken between Mongolia and Turkey should be called Turkic languages, and the term "Turkish" should refer to the language spoken in Turkey alone.
		The history of the language is divided into three main groups, old Turkish (from the 7th to the 13th centuries), mid-Turkish (from the 13th to the 20th) and new Turkish from the 20th century onwards.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /dil.htm (924 words)

	Turkish language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Turkish is a member of the Turkish family of languages, which includes Gagauz, and Khorasani Turkish in addition to Osmanli Turkish.
		The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Oghuz languages, themselves a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which many linguists believe to be a part of of an Altaic language family.
		Turkish is the official language of Turkey, and is one of the official languages of Cyprus.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Turkish_language (2289 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)

	Mongolian Branch of the Altaic Language Family
		Languages belonging to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic family are spoken by some 7.2 million people, primarily in the Republic of Mongolia, in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and around Lake Baikal in Siberia.
		A language is said to possess vowel harmony if it has a phonological rule that requires all vowels in a word to belong to a single class such as "round" or "front".
		Mongolian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for native speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/MongolBranch.html (463 words)

	Turkish Language
		The Turkish language is not an Indo-European language.
		The languages of this family are called Altaic because they are believed to have originated in the high lands around the Altay Mountains of Central Asia.
		The language being spoken in Turkey now is accepted to be the standard Turkish and it is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks in the late 11th century AD.
	www.bigglook.com /biggtraveleng/infotips/language.asp (1330 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		In Cyprus, Turkish is a co-official language (with Greek) where it is spoken as a first language by 19 percent of the population (Comrie 1990).
		Turkish belongs to the Turkish branch of the Altaic language family.
		Spoken Turkish was declared the language of the country; measures were taken to expunge Persian and Arabic borrowings and to replace them with native Turkish or at least Turkic words; the Arabic alphabet was replaced with the Roman alphabet currently used to represent Turkish; and a massive literacy campaign was undertaken.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=67 (1142 words)

	HLW: Appendices: Languages Cited
		At first it was not the first language of anybody, but with the growth of cities and marriage between speakers of different first languages, it soon became a language learned by children as a first language.
		Eskimo languages are spoken in a large, sparsely populated region extending from the far eastern end of Siberia in Russia, across Alaska and northern Canada to Greenland.
		As in other sign languages, there is a strong tendency for signs in ASL to be iconic, that is, to be motivated by their meanings rather than completely arbitrary.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Appendices/languages.html (3920 words)

	Hunters: The people of Siberia
		The KHANTS (Ostyaks, Ob Ostyaks) are comprised of 23,000 people who speak the Khant language of the Finno-Ugrian group of the Uralic language family and live in the regions of the Ob and Irtysh Rivers and their tributaries, within the range of the Khants-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Districts.
		The CHUKCHIS (Luoravetlan) consist of 15,000 people who speak the Chukchi language of the Chukchi-Kamchatka (Paleoasiatic) language family and live in northeastern Russia, within the boundaries of the Chukchi Autonomous District of the Magadan region, north of the Koryak Autonomous District of the Nizhnekolymskii (lower Kolyma) region of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
		They speak the Yakutian language of the Turkic group of the Altaic language family and live mostly in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), with lesser numbers residing in the Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk regions, the Evenk Autonomous District, and the former Soviet Republics.
	www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/changing/journey/hunters-people.html (759 words)

	Dr. Alexandrowicz's ESL Web Site - USD
		The Korean language is a member of the Altaic language family along with Japanese, Turkish, Manchu, and Mongolian.
		The Korean language uses honorifics, which are markings for nouns/verbs to show the speaker's formal/informal relationship to the listener.
		Education courses could also be organized to teach: language development programs, develop home activities to involve parents, and provide opportunities for parents to study English or learn cultural pressures that they and their children may encounter in the United States.
	www.sandiego.edu /esl/teaching/cultures/korean/korean_bk.html (1376 words)

	Lingva Prismo
		Language Family — Yakut belongs to the Northern Turkic group of the Turkic branch.
		Some linguists consider the Turkic languages to be a part of the Altaic language family.
		In the Yakut language there is a word for camel, as opposed to the other indigenous Siberian languages which use the Russian word verblyud.
	www.lingvo.info /lf/jakuta.php?lingvo=en (197 words)

	Seattle Language Academy, Korean Classes Seattle, Study Korean Seattle, Learn Korean Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some linguists believe that Korean is part of the Altaic language family, which includes the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungus-Manchu languages, while others believe that it is related to Japanese.
		Those who believe Korean belongs to the Altaic language family point to its lack of certain grammatical features such as number, gender, articles, and relative pronouns, a characterisitic common to all Altaic languages.
		The standard language of South Korea is based on the dialect spoken around Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken around P'yŏngyang.
	www.sealang.com /flp/flp_korean.asp (405 words)

	Languages : Altaic Family
		The language used to be written in Chinese characters.
		The Altaic languages have lots of suffixes that can be glued on one after the other to build up quite complex ideas.
		All languages are influenced by languages they are in contact with.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_altaic.html (453 words)

	The Hungarian Language
		The origin of the Hungarian language is one of the several mysteries that surround the early history of the Magyars.
		The most closely related language to Hungarian is spoken on the eastern side of the Ural Mountain in western Sibiria by Khanty and Manshi people.
		These words also show a general affinity to the so called Eastern-Turkic languages (see the Altaic language families) spoken in certain parts of Central-Asia, such as Kirghiz, Kazakh, and Uyghur, the language of the largest minority of China living on both sides of the Tien-Shan.
	studentorgs.utexas.edu /husa/language.html (886 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions - The Yamasa Institute
		Altaic indicates Turkish, Mongolian, Samoyed, Tungus and Korean.
		Castren (1857) further elaborated the category of 'Altaisch' and ongoing research on language typology led subsequent investigators to place Japanese and Korean in that group: Rosny (1864), Winkler (1884, 1894), Grunzel (1895).
		By the turn of the century, evidence for the Altaic relationship led at least one scholar of Old Japanese to describe it as: "the primal extant deliverances of the whole Ural-Altaic stock" (1906: 2xxv).
	faq.yamasa.org /faq614.html (322 words)

	KryssTal: Feedback (Language Families - Page 1)
		It seems rather that the effect of the previously-described mixing was a drifting of the language from his original family, which seemed to be Malayo-Polynesian.
		As the native name of German language is 'Deutsch', but we never use 'Deutsch' in place of 'German' in English; or native term of Greek Language is 'Elinika' and always in English we say 'Greek' language not 'Elinika' language.
		The other languages in the Semitic Branch of this family are Maltese which is written in the Latin script because the Maltese are Catholic.
	www.krysstal.com /feedback/display_feedback.php?ftype=Language+Families (2509 words)

	Overview of the Turkish Language to Help You Learn Turkish
		The Turkic language group is a branch of the Altaic language family which includes the Mongolian and Tungusic languages.
		After language reforms were initiated in 1928, Turkish began to be written in a Roman-based alphabet with 28 letters.
		One of the most distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language is agglutination: the practice of adding on multiple suffixes to word stems to indicate grammatical functions such as number, gender, or tense.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/turkish/overview.htm (530 words)

	Korean Sketch
		The genetic affiliation of the Korean language is a subject that has created much controversy in the field of linguistics and has yet to be determined.
		Among these hypotheses are the Altaic hypothesis, the Austronesian hypothesis, the Altaic/ Austronesian hypothesis, the Dravidian hypothesis, and the Nostratic hypothesis.
		This hypothesis argues that an Altaic group entered Korea from the north while and Austronesian group entered Korea from the south, resulting in a language clash on the peninsula between the two language families that produced the Korean language.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~sford/research/korean2 (2012 words)

	Korean Translation - Translate Korean Language Translator
		Korean is considered by many to be a member of the Altaic family, but its proper classification is not universally agreed on.
		Korean is often classified as being a separate language in a family of its own (a language isolate).
		The standard language (Pyojuneo or Pyojunmal) of South Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken around Pyongyang.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/korean.shtml (2050 words)

	ORIGIN THEORIES
		Korean language is spoken by about 60 million people and is considered to be one of the major languages in the world.
		Huh Woong begins his article "Development of the Korean Language" saying that "there is no material available to us with which to get a glimpse of the language...as a result, we are unable to clarify to what family of languages the ancient Korean tongue belonged" (1993, p.
		The work by Castrén is valuable because later on scholars recognized the Altaic family as the Ural-Altaic family, which extends 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.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/korean.html (1756 words)

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