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If I'm understand Beckwith's disassociation of Koguryo(ic) and
Japanese from other Altaic languages, does this imply that Tungusic
languages are only in some incidental way connected to "Altaic"
languages at all? Does it mean that if there is an Altaic family it
really has only two branches --Turkic and Mongolic? Does it leave the
Tungusic languages as a free-standing language group?