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The 13 pages that link to Altaic languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Turkic languagesCompared with: The hypothesis once linked Turkic origins to neighboring families, but shared features may reflect contact.

• Turkic peoplesCompared with: The proposed wider grouping is not needed to establish Turkic linguistic kinship.

• Turkish languageCompared with: Turkish vowel harmony and agglutination once supported this proposal, but these traits do not establish common descent.

• Mongolian languageCompared with: It frames a debate over whether Mongolian and Turkic similarities reflect ancestry or contact.

• Korean languageCompared with: The once-popular Altaic hypothesis is not accepted as an established family by most specialists.

• Uralic languagesCompared with: Older proposals grouped Uralic with Altaic, but this wider genetic relationship is not accepted as established.

• Mongolic languagesCompared with: The hypothesis tests whether similarities across these families reflect ancestry or contact.

• Nostratic languagesCompared with: Its debated status illustrates the difficulty of establishing very deep language groupings.

• Tungusic languagesCompared with: The proposed relationship of Tungusic to Turkic and Mongolic remains controversial.

• TurkologyCompared with: The debated grouping shows why Turkic linguistic relationships require careful classification.

• Sun Language TheoryCompared with: Even this narrower proposed relationship is contested; Sun Language Theory claimed a vastly broader ancestry.

• Alexander VovinCompared with: Vovin criticized attempts to establish Japonic membership in this disputed grouping.

• Mongolian studiesCompared with: Debates about this grouping show why comparative claims about Mongolian require careful evidence.