Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic

This group covers the three language families most often discussed together under the disputed Altaic hypothesis: Turkic, from Turkish and Azerbaijani through the Central Asian and Siberian Turkic languages, Mongolic, Mongolian and its relatives, and Tungusic, Manchu, Evenki and their relatives in eastern Siberia and Manchuria. Whether or not the three share a common ancestor beyond areal contact and centuries of borrowing, comparative linguists conventionally discuss them side by side because of their shared geography and mutual contact. The Altaic hypothesis entity itself, along with every named Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic sub-branch or extinct relative reported here, is filed in this one group rather than split three ways, since none of the three individually approaches the size that would call for a group of its own.