The Unity and Diversity of Altaic

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ID13091724
AutoresJuha Janhunen (0000-0003-1242-8808, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas135-154
Data de publicação2023-01-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnual Review of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2333-9683 • E-ISSN: 2333-9691
EditoraAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-042356
OpenAlexW4317038763
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas52

In popular conception, Altaic is often assumed to constitute a language family, or perhaps a phylum, but in reality, it involves a historical, areal, and typological complex of five separate language families of different origins—Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic—to which Uralic also adheres in the transcontinental context of Ural-Altaic. The similarities between the individual Altaic language families are due to prolonged contacts that have resulted in both lexical borrowing and structural interaction in a number of binary patterns. The historical homelands of the Altaic language families were located in continental Northeast Asia, but secondary expansions have subsequently brought these languages to most parts of northern and central Eurasia, including Anatolia and eastern Europe. The present review summarizes the basic facts concerning the Altaic language families, their common features, their patterns of interaction with each other and with other languages, and their historical and prehistorical context

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Genealogy · Geography · Historical linguistics · Language family · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy