which page of the book a glossary of historical linguistics that supports your personal opnion that most linguists reject altaic hypothesis which page of the book i can't find it it says a hypothesis of distant genetic relationship taking its name from the altai mountains of central asia it holds that turkic mongolian and tungusic manchu tungusic together comprising some forty languages are genetically related more extended versions of the altaic hypothesis would include korean and japanese sometimes also ainu various scholars in the early and mid s proposed classifications that would group some or all of the altaic languages together but typically these were included in larger more poorly defined proposed affiliations such as the now abandoned ural altaic hypothesis p now abandoned is ural altaic relation which was replaced with not altaic eurasiatic greenberg s hypothesis of a distant genetic relationship that would group indo european uralic yukaghir altaic korean japanese ainu nivkh chukotian and eskimo aleut as members of a very large linguistic stock while there is considerable overlap in the putative members of eurasiatic and nostratic there are also significant differences eurasiatic has been sharply criticized and is largely rejected by specialists georg and vovin p so where's the phrase that supports your personal opnion that most lingusts reject altaic