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> I thought Altaic was deboonked?

It is generally not thought of as the same genetic language family by most linguists (although a minority of scholars, namely Martine Robeets, still think it is and are continuing to do research). However, there are certain morphosyntactic similarities between these language families which can be studied in common, which is what I’m interested in.

> if you’re interested in this language grouping, there’s a huge compendium on the collective properties of Altaic (now Transeurasian) Languages by Robeets and Savelyev called the Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages that came out in 2020, fascinating stuff, they go into it in autistic detail and it’s useful whether you believe the Altaic theory or not