Editing Mongolic languages (section)

===Altaic===
A few linguists have grouped Mongolic with [[Turkic languages|Turkic]], [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic]] and possibly [[Koreanic languages|Koreanic]] or [[Japonic languages|Japonic]] as part of the controversial [[Altaic languages|Altaic family]].<ref>e.g. {{harvcoltxt|Starostin|Dybo|Mudrak|2003}}; contra e.g. {{harvcoltxt|Vovin|2005}}</ref>

Following [[Sergei Starostin]], [[Martine Robbeets]] suggested that Mongolic languages belong to a "[[Transeurasian]]" superfamily also comprising [[Japonic languages]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Tungusic languages]] and [[Turkic languages]],<ref>Robbeets, Martine et al. 2021 Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages, Nature 599, 616–621</ref> but this view has been severely criticized.<ref name="Tian 2022">{{citation |url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.09.495471v1 |last1=Tian |first1=Zheng |last2=Tao |first2=Yuxin |last3=Zhu |first3=Kongyang |last4=Jacques |first4=Guillaume |author4-link=Guillaume Jacques|last5=Ryder |first5=Robin J. |last6=de la Fuente |first6=José Andrés Alonso |last7=Antonov |first7=Anton |last8=Xia |first8=Ziyang |last9=Zhang |first9=Yuxuan |last10=Ji |first10=Xiaoyan |last11=Ren |first11=Xiaoying |last12=He |first12=Guanglin |last13=Guo |first13=Jianxin |last14=Wang |first14=Rui |last15=Yang |first15=Xiaomin |last16=Zhao |first16=Jing |last17=Xu |first17=Dan |last18=Gray |first18=Russell D. |author18-link=Russell Gray|last19=Zhang |first19=Menghan |last20=Wen |first20=Shaoqing |last21=Wang |first21=Chuan-Chao |last22=Pellard |first22=Thomas |title=Triangulation fails when neither linguistic, genetic, nor archaeological data support the Transeurasian narrative |publisher=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |date=2022-06-12 |doi=10.1101/2022.06.09.495471|s2cid=249649524 }}</ref> {{Better source needed|reason=Source is a preprint and the publisher is not a linguistic journal but appears to be a biology journal.|date=November 2024}}