THE GENERAL LINGUISTIC OF ALTAIC FAMILY LANGUAGES
Keywords:
hypothesis , linguistic, claims, longeraccepted, thehypothesis, morphological systems, greaterlight.Abstract
The hypothesis of an Altaic language family, comprising the Turkic,
Mongolic,Tungusic, Korean and, in most recent versions, Japanese languages continues to
bea viable linguistic proposal, despite various published claims that it is no
longeraccepted. A strong body of research continues to appear, developing and refining
thehypothesis,
along
with
publications that argue against a demonstrated
relationshipamong these languages. This paper shows that many of the arguments against
agenetic relationship fail to address the criteria demanded in modern historicallinguistics,
while many of the responses from proponents of the Altaic theory havefailed to address
the criticisms raised. We hope that arguments focusing on the realissues of phonological
correspondences and morphological systems will shed greaterlight on the relationship
among these languages.
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