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Altaic languages have often been considered distantly related to other notable language families. Until recently, the most popular theory was that these languages were related to [[Japanese]] and [[Ainu]]. However, those languages have now been shown to be isolates unrelated to any others. Altaic languages are most likely to be related to the Afro-Asiatic family. However, this relationship is very distant.
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This group of langauges is spoken in parts of the old Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China and Mongolia.
 
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Altaic languages are characterized by agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This is similar to many Native American languages. Phonologically, a widespread characteristic of Altaic languages is vowel harmony.
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This group of langauges is spoken in parts of the Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Korea and Mongolia.
      
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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