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Note that Altaic itself is considered discredited among linguists, to say nothing of the Uralic-Altaic (which never found serious purchase).


If you look from Indo-European perspective, in other words if you look only at the common words, yes, they share very little common words. And then no one explains all those same grammatical structures shared between those languages. In the article replace Finnish with Turkish, Mongolian, Hungarian or Japanese and again that article will be correct again.




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