Altaic languages
The term "Turanian", now obsolete, formerly occurred in the classifications used by European (especially [[Germany|German]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]], and [[Slovakia|Slovak]]) [[Ethnology|ethnologists]], [[Linguistics|linguists]], and [[Romanticism|Romantics]] to designate populations speaking non-[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]], non-[[Semitic languages|Semitic]], and non-[[Hamites|Hamitic languages]] and specially speakers of [[Altaic languages|Altaic]], [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]], [[Uralic languages|Uralic]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]] and other languages.