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 (1,729 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's Commons category is recorded as Altaic languages[8].
  • Altaic comprises Turkic[9].
  • Altaic comprises Mongolic[10].
  • Altaic comprises Tungusic[11].
  • Altaic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Altaic languages[12].
  • Altaic's described at URL is recorded as https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0177.xml[13].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Altaic's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17].
  • Altaic's topic has template is recorded as Template:Altaic languages[18].
  • Altaic's different from is recorded as Altai[19].
  • Altaic's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[20].
  • Altaic's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[21].
  • Altaic's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].

Why It Matters

Altaic ranks in the top 3% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,729 views/month).[2] Altaic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Altaic is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d 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
    + 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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