What is Altaic?
Q: What is Altaic?
A: Altaic is a language system that includes the Turkic languages, Mongolic, and the Tungusic languages. It has disputed language families but is believed to have 66 languages spoken by about 348 million people mostly in Central Asia and northeast Asia.
Q: How many linguists still believe that Altaic existed?
A: Only a few linguists still believe that it existed.
Q: What was published in 1952-1957?
A: Gustaf John Ramstedt's Einführung was published in 1952-1957.
Q: What did this publication include?
A: This publication included Korean as part of Altaic.
Q: What was published in 1971?
A: Roy Andrew Miller's Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages was published in 1971.
Q: What did this publication include?
A: This publication included Japanese or Japonic, consisting of Japanese and Ryukyuan.
Q: Is Ainu considered part of Altaic by some linguists?
A Yes, some linguists (such as Street 1962) consider Ainu part of Altaic but as part of a node including Korean and Japanese, in contrast to a Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic node with Korean-Japanese-Ainu and Turkikc-Mongolic-Tungusics forming a higher level node.
