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Wei Yu Tan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The Tungusic languages have always been part of the Altaic language family - one of the branches in a dendritic classification. It's the status of Korean and that of Japanese that are disputable.
The exact nature of the Altaic "language family" is disputed as well. Some scholars like to follow the old view that all three branches - Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic - descended from a common proto-language, and that nearly all the common elements between the languages are evidence of this common descent. This is the view of scholars such as Nicholas Poppe. However, one view that has been gaining more and more adherents in recent years is that the similarities between the three branches can be explained as the result of areal contact and borrowing, i.e. convergence as
opposed to divergence. In this light, Altaic should be termed a Sprachbund. A third view is sort of a conflation of the above two: Although many of the similarities between the languages can be explained as borrowings and convergence, there are a number of common elements between Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic that may be indicative of a very ancient proto-language, although such elements are often quite difficult to distinguish from the loanwords and other borrowed elements.
- Andrew Shimunek
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