Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily
Alexei Kassian, George Starostin, Ilya M. Egorov, Ekaterina S. Logunova, Анна Владимировна Дыбо · Evolutionary Human Sciences · 2021
-values. In some cases, this can be attributed to either ancient contacts or genealogical relationships, but at least for the Turkic-Japonic pair, a contact scenario is unlikely owing to geographical remoteness.