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 ...

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 Altaistics. Released by the ...

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 ...

The over-representation of historical-period DCs in pastoral nomadic Altaic-speaking populations is compatible with the development of new forms of political and social organisation in pastoralist ...

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, let ...

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