Editing Altaic languages (section)

===List of supporters and critics of the Altaic hypothesis===
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The list below comprises linguists who have worked specifically on the Altaic problem since the publication of the first volume of Ramstedt's ''Einführung'' in 1952. The dates given are those of works concerning Altaic. For supporters of the theory, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean–Japanese.

====Major supporters====
*[[Pentti Aalto]] (1955). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean.
*[[Anna V. Dybo]] (S. Starostin et al. 2003, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008).
*[[Frederik Kortlandt]] (2010).
*[[Karl H. Menges]] (1975). Common ancestor of Korean, Japanese and traditional Altaic dated back to the 7th or 8th millennium BC (1975: 125).
*[[Roy Andrew Miller]] (1971, 1980, 1986, 1996). Supported the inclusion of Korean and Japanese.
*Oleg A. Mudrak (S. Starostin et al. 2003).
*[[Nicholas Poppe]] (1965). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and perhaps Korean.
*[[Alexis Manaster Ramer]].
*[[Peter Benjamin Golden]]
*[[Martine Robbeets]] (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2021) (in the form of "Transeurasian"). 
*[[Gustaf John Ramstedt|G. J. Ramstedt]] (1952–1957). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean.
*[[Georgiy Starostin|George Starostin]] (A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008).
*[[Sergei Starostin]] (1991, S. Starostin et al. 2003).
*John C. Street (1962). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and Korean–Japanese–Ainu, grouped as "North Asiatic".
*[[Talât Tekin]] (1994). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean.

====Major critics====
* [[Gerard Clauson]] (1956, 1959, 1962)
* [[Gerhard Doerfer]] (1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1993)
* [[Susumu Ōno]] (1970, 2000)
* [[Juha Janhunen]] (1992, 1995) (tentative support of Mongolic-Tungusic)
* [[Claus Schönig]] (2003)<ref name=schon03/>
* [[Stefan Georg]] (2004, 2005)
* [[Alexander Vovin]] (2005, 2010, 2017) - Formerly an advocate of Altaic (1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001), later a critic
* [[Alexander Shcherbak]]
* [[Alexander B. M. Stiven]] (2008, 2010)

====Advocates of alternative hypotheses====
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*[[James Patrie]] (1982) and [[Joseph Greenberg]] (2000–2002). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and Korean–Japanese–Ainu, grouped in a common [[taxon]] (cf. John C. Street 1962).
*[[J. Marshall Unger]] (1990). Tungusic–Korean–Japanese ("'''Macro-Tungusic'''"), with Turkic and Mongolic as separate language families.
*[[Lars Johanson]] (2010). Agnostic, proponent of a "Transeurasian" verbal morphology not necessarily genealogically linked.