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A proposed grouping of the Altaic (Turkish, Mongolian, Kazakh, Manchurian etc. plus perhaps Korean and Japanese ) and Uralic (Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian mostly) into one language group. Cases can be both made for and against this. Both groups follow the principle of vowel harmony, are agglutinative (stringing suffixes, prefixes or both onto a single root)and lack any way for expressing grammatical gender. However, the vocabulary of both groups does not correspond, except for borrowings. Thusly it remains for the linguists of the future to prove or disprove this proposal.