Altaic

obsolete, widely rejected supergroup of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic language families
Language language_family Q37845
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Altaic

Summary

Altaic is a language family[1]. Altaic ranks in the top 3% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,792 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Altaic's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Altaic's instance of is recorded as sprachbund[4].
  • Altaic followed Proto-Altaic[5].
  • Altaic is a type of Nostratic[6].
  • Altaic is a type of Asian languages[7].
  • Altaic is a type of Ural–Altaic[8].
  • Altaic's Commons category is recorded as Altaic languages[9].
  • Altaic comprises Turkic[10].
  • Altaic comprises Mongolic[11].
  • Altaic comprises Tungusic[12].
  • Altaic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Altaic languages[13].
  • Altaic's described at URL is recorded as https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0177.xml[14].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[15].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18].
  • Altaic's topic has template is recorded as Template:Altaic languages[19].
  • Altaic's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C210936[20].
  • Altaic's different from is recorded as Altai[21].
  • Altaic's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[22].
  • Altaic's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[23].
  • Altaic's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • Altaic's P14541 is recorded as 4ADq1i[25].

Why It Matters

Altaic ranks in the top 3% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,792 views/month).[2] Altaic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Altaic is known by 112 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · Frhdkazan · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C210936
    Encyclopedia tatarica (tt) online id → razdely/narody/tatary/tatarskij-yazyk/altajskie-yazyki
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8373]]: razdely/narody/tatary/tatarskij-yazyk/altajskie-yazyki"
  2. 4w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C0574179
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2892]]: C0574179"
  3. 7w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i72964
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06938989-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4ADq1i
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008622-altajske-jazyky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008622-altajske-jazyky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259649|batch #259649]]"
  6. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Altai
    Follows → —
    Topic has template → Template:Altaic languages
    Subclass of → Nostratic, Asian languages, Ural–Altaic
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14460, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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