Editing Turanian languages (section)

==Classification==
[[File:Linguistic map of the Altaic, Turkic and Uralic languages (en).png|thumb|389x389px|Map of Eurasia showing the "Altaic" and Uralic language-speaking regions, which are united under the "Turanian" theory.]]
In 1730, [[Philip Johan von Strahlenberg|von Strahlenberg]], relying on structural similarities of languages, proposed a group of "Tatar languages" spanning northern and central Eurasia and the languages of the Caucasus.
In 1832, [[Rasmus Rask|Rask]] added [[Basque language|Basque]] and languages of Greenland and North America to von Strahlenberg's grouping, labelling the resulting group the "Scythian languages".{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=237}}{{sfnp|Poppe|1965|p=125}}
Rask also added the [[Dravidian languages]] to this grouping on the basis of similarities in grammatical structure, postulating that the Scythian languages had once stretched from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean before being split by the intrusion of Indo-Aryan languages.{{sfnp|Krishnamurti|2003|p=5}}{{sfnp|Rask|1834|p=525}}

Müller added even more languages to this group.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=237}}{{sfnp|Poppe|1965|p=126}}
He viewed the structure of the family as follows:{{sfnp|Müller|1854|p=220}}{{sfnp|Müller|1861|pp=397–398}}

{{tree list}}
* '''Turanian'''
** Northern Division ([[Ural–Altaic languages|Ural-Altaic]])
*** [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic]]
*** [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]]
*** [[Turkic languages|Turkic]]
*** [[Samoyedic languages|Samoyedic]]
*** [[Finno-Ugric languages|Finnic]]
** Southern Division
*** [[Tai languages|Taic]]
*** Malaic ([[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]])
*** Bhotîya ([[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]])
**** Gangetic
**** Lohitic
*** [[Munda languages|Munda]]
*** Tamulic ([[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]])
{{tree list/end}}

He left [[Japonic languages|Japonic]], [[Koreanic languages|Koreanic]], [[Koryak language|Koryak]], [[Itelmen language|Itelmen]] and various [[languages of the Caucasus]] unclassified, but suggested that they might have a common origin with Turanian.{{sfnp|Müller|1861|p=324}}
He preferred to call Turanian a "language group", feeling that it was less tightly bound than "language families" like Indo-European and Semitic.{{sfnp|Poppe|1965|p=126}}