According to Altaic theory, Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu-Tungusic and Korean - some scholars also add Japanese to this family - all come from a common, hypothetical language, Altaic.

The hypothesis of an Altaic language family, comprising the Turkic, Monogolic, Tungusic, Korean and, in most recent versions, Japanese languages continues to be a viable linguistic proposal, despite ...

For example, hearing language about people tends to activate one area of the brain, about places in another, and about numbers in a third–demonstrating a basic organizing principle for how the ...