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Ural-Altaic languages Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher Articles (in German and English) devoted to the linguistics, anthropology and history of Uralic and Altaic languages and peoples. Ural America: Classic Motorcycles and Sidecars Inc. CMSI is also known as Ural America, the former importer of Sidecar motorcycles from Russian Siberia. Monumenta Altaica: Altaic Linguistics Texts in ancient and modern Altaic languages including Turcic, Mongolian, Tungusic, Manchu, Korean, and Japanese with bibliography, grammars and links to online Altaic dictionaries. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Ural-Altaic_languages.html

Ural-Altaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eurasiatic) within which Uralic and Altaic are no more closely related to each other than to this macrofamily's other members (a claim seen as unprovable, or at least unproved, by critics.) Most modern linguists argue either that these two families (or more than two, if Altaic is rejected) are unrelated, ascribing any similarities to coincidence or mutual influence resulting in "convergence". Other critics see this as problematic, pointing to strong similarities in their pronouns and other elements - although pronoun borrowing, while rare, is attested. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages

Tatars Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once much more numerous Turkic population of the Ural - Altaic region, mixed to some extent with Finnish and Nenets (Samoyed) stems, as also with Mongols. The Bashkirs who live between the Kama, Ural and Volga are possibly of Finno-Ugric origin, but now speak a language same as Tatar and have converted to Sunni Islam. They live in the Urals, where the Russian border with Kazakhstan was in the 17th-18th century. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tatars.html

Altaic hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While the Uralic languages (Finnic, Ugric, Samoyedic) share important typological (particularly morphophonological) features with Altaic, the Ural-Altaic hypothesis is currently considered unproven. Some have argued that there is a Ural-Altaic super-family. The main arguments used by the critics of the Altaic hypothesis (in recent years particularly Gerhard Doerfer and a number of European Turcologists and Mongolists) to discredit the hypothesis are mostly based upon criteria used in Indo-European research, criteria they seem to assume to be universally applicable. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altaic_hypothesis

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Altaic updated 5-1-2002 Altaic (Ural-Altaic) (also called Turco-Tartar) comprises one branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. 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. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/altaiclh.htm

Turkic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He further asserts that ancient Turkic (or Kypçak) people made an empire that was the biggest in the ancient world, bigger than Greek and Roman empires - from the Black sea on the west to China on the east, and from the Ural mountains on the north to India in the south. Though in modern times no one believes in Tenghri, his name hasn't entirely disappeared; it is typically used in languages of 'non-Muslim' Altaic peoples, like Kalmyks, Mongols, Tuvans, Buryats and Yakuts. The ancient Shamanic religion of Turkic people has also been called Tenghriism, as it involved belief in the god Tenghri as the main god of all Altaic peoples, and ruler of skies. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkic_peoples

The Magyars Scholars known as orientalists believe that the origin of Magyars and their language is not found in the Urals, but in Central Asia known as the Turanian Plain or Soviet Turkestan which stretches from the Caspian Sea eastward to Lake Balchas. The advocates of this theory insist that Magyars came from this group in the Urals, and as the theory explains, it was about 2000 B.C. that the Finnish branch broke away to settle in the Baltic area. The Magyars remained on the West Siberian steppes with the other Ugrian peoples until 500 B.C. It was then that the Magyars crossed the Urals westward to settle in what is present day Soviet Bashkiria, north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus. hungarianhistory.freeservers.com /magyars.html

Ural-altaic hypothesis - Network Live Uraidla,_South_Australia Urakami Urakawa,_Hokkaido Urakawa_District,_Hokkaido Ural Ural-Altai Ural-Altaic Ural - Altaic_hypothesis Ural-Altaic_language... ural-altaic_hypothesis.networklive.org

Altaic languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica Most of the evidence for including the Uralic and Altaic languages in one language family... 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... The Altaic family is commonly divided into three main groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus (or Manchurian). www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=79991

North Kyushu Creole - Kyushu and Okinawa Studies - A Forum for Research on Japan's Southern Islands 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). The ancestors of the Altaic languages of Korean and Japanese were in direct contact with each other possibly as part of a single direct continuum and subsequently split up on the Northeast Asian Mainland. The linguistic structures of these languages reflected their multiple origins: Palaeosiberian such as Ainu, Altaic such as varieties of Korean and Chinese and varieties of Malayo-Polynesian languages which were carried by immigrants from the south. kostudies.com /home/content/articles/11

Altaic Uralic and Altaic languages - Uralic and Altaic languages, two groups of related languages thought by many scholars to form a... Like the Uralic languages, the Altaic tongues are characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony. Altaic influences on Beijing dialect: the Manchu case. www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0803495.html

ninemsn Encarta - Altaic Languages 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. 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. 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. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563293/Altaic_Languages.html   (481 words)

Altaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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 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'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altaic_languages   (515 words)

Korean on Encyclopedia.com It is thought by some scholars to be akin to Japanese, by others to be a member of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages), and by still others to be unrelated to any known language. The Korean tongue is spoken by about 68 million people in Korea (45 million in South Korea and 23 million in North Korea) and by nearly 1 million others in Japan. www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Korean.asp   (515 words)

Ural-altaic - Network Live Ural - Altaic synonyms, Ural - Altaic antonyms. The Ural - Altaic language family is a grouping of languages which was once widely accepted by linguists, but has since been generally rejected. Ural - Altaic - definition of Ural - Altaic by the Free Online... ural-altaic.networklive.org   (515 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hungarian Literature Together with the Vogul-Ostiak, Hungarian, as well as Lappish, Finnish, Cheremis, Mordvin, and Samojed, belongs to the Ural group of languages, and further, together with Turkish and Mongolian — all of Asiatic origin — to the Ural-Altaic group. As was determined by the Jesuit Sajnovics in 1770, it is most nearly related to the Vogul-Ostiak, though the Hungarians have been separated for more than two thousand years from the people using that tongue. The vocabulary of Hungarian has been greatly enriched by words borrowed from neighbouring peoples, as from the Persian and especially from the Turkish, even before the immigration into the present Hungary (896), so that it was for some time thought that Hungarian was most nearly allied to the Turco-Mongolian stock (Vámbéry). www.newadvent.org /cathen/07560a.htm   (515 words)

Total Quality Japanese: Does Japanese have European Cousins? The Ural-Altaic Connection By coincidence, Roy Andrew Miller, the American linguist who has made some bold attempts to link Japanese to Altaic languages suggests "katana" originated from the Altaic "kata-" meaning "to be hard." (In modern Japanese, "katai" still means hard.) In Mongol "qada" refers to rocks, cliffs and crags. The Altaic language to which Japanese has most often been linked is Korean. In order to show languages as being related, "sets of regular correspondences" must be demonstrated, but, as languages drift apart, it can be expected that these sets may at first seem unrelated until the regularity of the changes that have created them can be established. www.cic.sfu.ca /tqj/JapaneseStudy/european.html   (515 words)

Vocabulary Turkish belongs to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages, and thus is closely related to Mongolian, Manchu-Tungus, Korean, and perhaps Japanese. Some scholars have maintained that these resemblances are not fundamental, but rather the result of borrowings, however comparative Altaistic studies in recent years demonstrate that the languages we have listed all go back to a common Ur-Altaic. It is spoken in the Azeri, the Türkmen, the Tartar, the Uzbek, the Baskurti, the Nogay, the Kyrgyz, the Kazakh, the Yakuti, the Cuvas and other dialects. www.ubalt.edu /tsa/Turkish   (515 words)

Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars) - Bar Supplies - BarSecret.com turkish, although in possession of vowel harmony, is not a member of the uralic language family, as magellan suggests - it is an altaic language family member. barsecret.com /product/0415226120-Hungarian-An-Essential-Grammar-Rou...   (515 words)

Allwords.com Definition of Ural-Altaic A supposed group of related languages of eastern Europe and northern Asia, comprising the Uralic and Altaic language families. Relating to the area of the Ural Mountains which separate Europe and Asia and the Altai Mountains in central Asia. Referring or relating to this group of languages and their speakers. www.allwords.com /word-Ural-Altaic.html   (515 words)

ural-altaic - meaning and definition of the word. [a.] Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages. You can double click on any word to find it's meaning when you see the help cursor. dictionary.blintz.com /dictionary/ural-altaic   (515 words)

Ugrian on Encyclopedia.com See Finno-Ugric languages ; Uralic and Altaic languages. www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Ugrian.asp   (515 words)

Tatar language - Enpsychlopedia The Tatar language ( Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. Tatar is a Turkic language, which is considered part of the disputed Altaic language family. Other European (see Crimean Tatar), Caucasian and West-Siberian Turco-Tatar languages are quite similar to Kazan Tatar, but not necessarily mutually intelligible with it. www.grohol.com /wiki/Tatar_language   (515 words)

Satanic Reds In all of these examples of shamanic beliefs, both in Altaic Shamanism and the Shamanism of North America, the sacred representation of sky, moon, sun, star or Venus are illustrated on shaman's maps, tipis, drums and costumes. A plausible area for the original homeland of Sumerians may be the part of Central Asia which is bounded between southern tips of Ural mountains in the north, the Caspian Sea in the south, Irtish river at the east and Idil (Volga) river at the west. It is seen that the Sumerians had similar beliefs in the Astral entities, such as the Sky, Moon and Sun, as did the ancestors of Altaic peoples through their Altaic Shamanism. www.geocities.com /SATANICREDS/s-t-p.html   (515 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Ural-Altaic Most linguists now include 3 branches in this family: Uralic, Altaic, and Koreo-Japanese, although there remains some question as to the relatedness of the latter. The Altaic branch (also called Turco-Tartar) includes the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic sub-branches. Finno-Ugric is further divided into Finnic (which includes a number of languages, the best-known being Finnish) and Ugric, which includes Hungarian. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/uralth.htm   (515 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99041501 The basic thesis of this two-volume work is that the extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America, encompassing Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Japanese-Korean-Ainu, Gilyak, Chuckchi-Kamchatkan, and Eskimo-Aleut. The author asserts that the numerous and interlocking resemblances he finds among the various subgroups can only reasonably be explained by descent from a common ancestor. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam0210/99041501.html   (515 words)

Scythian Religious Terms The main agglutinative languages of Asia today are Finn-Ugor(Uralic), Altaic (Turkic,Mongol,..) and Dravidian (in India). Here is a more detailed list of religious and mythological terms which were recorded by Herodotus and their Ural-Altaic comparisons. In the past most of Iran and the near east also spoke such languages, like Sumerian, Elamite, Hurri, Urartuan, Hatti, Guti, Lulubi, Kassite.. www.stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/scythianterms.htm   (515 words)

ral-Altaic Languages 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 Samoyed languages are the easternmost representatives of Uralic. Altaic does have three branches, however--Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus--each of which forms a subfamily. members.tripod.com /~Yukon_2/language2.html   (1863 words)

The Marmot’s Hole » Suicidal tendencies? But on a more serious manner, since there should not be many serious linguists hanging on to the Ural-Altaic thing, and since the most up-to-date sholarship doesn’t even believe in the existence of the Altaic language family, this kind of Finno-Korean language connections should be no more than coctail party babble. The program ( link to KBS) for which the interview was done was aired recently on the Hangul Day on KBS; I’m not even sure if that part of the professor’s interview was included, since the program makers would’ve clearly liked to hear about Korea belonging to the Altaic group. I got a very good brief on the linguistics around Korean and the “Altaic” theory last summer when a Korean tv crew interviewed a Finnish professor Juha Janhunen, himself not a Korean linguist but a specialist on East and Northeast Asian languages. blog.marmot.cc /archives/2004/10/28/suicidal-tendencies   (1863 words)

Online-Lexikon: Samoyedic languages The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether. Nenets, Enets and Qanasan, all mutually intelligible, and the more divergent Selkup, formerly known as 'Ostyak Samoyed'. www.academicus.ch /en/samoyedic_languages.html   (1863 words)

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