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{{Short description|Pseudoscientific pan-nationalist movement}}
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[[File:Linguistic map of the Altaic, Turkic and Uralic languages (en).png|thumb|upright=1.5|Map of Eurasia showing the "Altaic" and Uralic language-speaking regions, which are united under the "Turanian" theory.]]
The '''Turanism''', also known as '''Turanianism''', '''pan-Turanism''' or '''pan-Turanianism''', is a [[Pan-nationalism|pan-nationalist]] political movement built around [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] claims of [[mongoloid|biological]] and [[Altaic|linguistic]] connections between various ethnic groups of [[Eurasia]]. It revolves around the abandoned proposal of a [[Ural-Altaic languages|Ural-Altaic language family]], which hypothesizes that the [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]], [[Mongolic peoples|Mongolic]], [[Tungusic peoples|Tungusic]], and [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] peoples share [[Inner Asia|Inner]] and [[Central Asia]]n origins and therefore close cultural, ethnic, and linguistic bonds. Supporters of Turanism propose political unity among these groups, chiefly to oppose the cultural and political influences of the [[Indo-European]]s of [[Europe]], [[West Asia]], and [[South Asia]], as well as the [[Sino-Tibetan]]s of [[East Asia]]. The movement emerged in the 19th century to counter [[Pan-nationalism|pan-nationalist]] ideologies such as [[pan-Germanism]],<ref name="Farkas">{{cite news|url=http://www.valosagonline.hu/index.php?oldal=cikk&cazon=904&lap=0 |author-last=Farkas |author-first=Ildikó |title=A magyar turanizmus török kapcsolatai |trans-title=The Turkish connections of Hungarian Turanism |language=hu |publisher=www.valosagonline.hu [Valóság (2013 I.-IV)] |year=2013 |access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref> and built upon the ideas of [[pan-Slavism]] (e.g. the idea of a "Turanian brotherhood and collaboration" was borrowed from the pan-Slavic concept of "Slavic brotherhood and collaboration").