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(really the same article over and over again) about "Transeurasian languages".
This is Altaic. It's been pretty debunked. As a language family, I mean - it's generally accepted as a sprachbund, though most people don't include Japanese, Korean, or Ainu here. The person pushing this new model with this new name has been banging the Altaic drum for a long time with no results, because there's no such thing. These languages all share a number of features in common because they're spoken in the same area and they borrowed off each other and also Chinese. (The Sinitic languages are not a part of this.)
It is theoretically possible that some astounding new scholarship or methodology will appear one day that will vindicate the Altaicists. That day is not today.
This is Altaic. It's been pretty debunked. As a language family, I mean - it's generally accepted as a sprachbund, though most people don't include Japanese, Korean, or Ainu here. The person pushing this new model with this new name has been banging the Altaic drum for a long time with no results, because there's no such thing. These languages all share a number of features in common because they're spoken in the same area and they borrowed off each other and also Chinese. (The Sinitic languages are not a part of this.)
It is theoretically possible that some astounding new scholarship or methodology will appear one day that will vindicate the Altaicists. That day is not today.
