Ural-Altaic, or Uralo-Altaic, is a linguistic convergence zone and an abandoned language-family proposal that once united the Uralic and Altaic languages. It is now generally agreed that even the Altaic languages do not share a common descent, since the similarities among Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic are better explained by diffusion and borrowing, and doubts about most or all proposed higher-order Uralic branchings have also become more common. The term continues to be used for the central Eurasian typological, grammatical and lexical convergence zone rather than for a genuine genealogical family.
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Debunked
Proto-Language StatusRejected as a genealogical family; mainstream linguistics now holds that even the Altaic languages proposed within it do not share a common descent, so no valid Ural-Altaic proto-language is reconstructed. 1 Browse and compare
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1. Ural-Altaic languages, Wikipedia
Infobox, Geographic distribution
Geographic distribution: Eurasia
Introduction, sentence 2
It is now generally agreed that even the Altaic languages do not share a common descent
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Ural-Altaic
Lead paragraph
Ural-Altaic or Uralo-Altaic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages.
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