`  == 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 1800s 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.7)  Now abandoned is Ural-Altaic relation which was replaced with , not Altaic.  Eurasiatic Greenberg’s (2000, 2002) 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 2003, 2005). (p. 58)  SO WHERE'S THE PHRASE THAT SUPPORTS YOUR PERSONAL OPNION THAT MOST LINGUSTS REJECT ALTAIC?`