Altaic languages

Altaic is a proposed language family that includes 66 languages [1] spoken by about 348 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and northeast Asia.The proponents of Altaic traditionally consider it to include the Turkic languages, the Mongolic languages, and the Tungusic languages (also called the Manchu-Tungus languages). Some also include Korean or Japonic. A few linguists add Ainu. Sometimes hypotheses that include only Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic are called "Micro-Altaic" and ones that include additional language families are called "Macro-Altaic".
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