The Altaic hypothesis was once one of the most fascinating linguistic theories, proposing that several language families across Eurasia, including Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic, were historically ...

Altaic Linguistics Introduced The Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, with Uygur linguist Litip Tohti as chief editor, is a laudable effort to push forward the long study of Altaic linguistics, or ...

HUMBOLDT and Rose, when descending the Irtysh between Boohtarminsk and Oostkamenogorsk, saw large masses of granite lying as if poured on the ends of metamorphosed slates (S. Rose, “Reise nach ...

Musing Under the Tenement Palm tracks down the source of a commonly reported “factoid” that China claimed to have invented skiing on the basis of ancient Altaic cave-paintings of Stone-Age hunters on ...

International study concludes that the Transeurasian, or Altaic, language family emerged from farmers in the West Liao valley and spread across Asia. Advertisement. Science. China Science.

These two factors alone cast doubt on the Ural-Altaic language family to which Korean supposedly belongs; after all, if we can’t even guarantee that the Altaic family is fully legitimate, ...

The Uygur people have no other relations with Turkey except that their language also belongs to the Turkic languages (branches of the Altaic languages). The Uygur people are not descendants of the ...

High-frequency microsatellite haplotypes of the male-specific Y-chromosome can signal past episodes of high reproductive success of particular men and their patrilineal descendants. Previously ...