Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily
In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of the 110-item basic wordlists for four reconstructed and one ancient languages, the linguistic ancestors of five language families which are hypothesized to sophie allport zebra constitute the Altaic (a.k.a.Transeurasian) macrofamily: Proto-Turkic, Proto-Mongolic, Proto-Tungusic, Middle Korean