Editing Turanian languages (section)

{{short description|Obsolete language-family proposal}}
{{Infobox language family
| name = Turanian
| acceptance = obsolete
| region = [[Eurasia]]
| familycolor = superfamily
| family = Proposed language family
| child1 = Northern ([[Ural–Altaic languages|Ural-Altaic]])
| child2 = Southern
| glotto = none
| map = 
| mapcaption =  
| ancestor = 
| glottoname = 
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| notes = 
}}
'''Turanian''' is an obsolete [[language family|language-family]] proposal subsuming most of the languages of Eurasia not included in [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]], [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]].
During the 19th century, inspired by the establishment of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] family, scholars looked for similarly widespread families elsewhere.{{sfn|Bhattacharya|1972|p=242}}
Building on the work of predecessors such as [[Rasmus Rask]] and [[Matthias Castrén]], [[Max Müller]] proposed the Turanian grouping primarily on the basis of the incidence of [[agglutinative]] morphology, naming it after [[Turan]], an ancient Persian term for the lands of Central Asia.{{sfnp|Müller|1861|pp=288–289}}{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=237}}
The languages he included are now generally assigned to nine separate language families.