Editing Turanian languages (section)

== Reception ==
Linguists no longer consider [[Morphological typology|typological features]] a sufficient criterion for the identification of language families.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=242}}
Such features are commonly shared by unrelated languages across the world, and also spread by interaction between unrelated languages.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=236}}

The proposal of a relationship between Ural-Altaic and Dravidian persisted in some late 19th century scholarship, but in the absence of further development, was considered an idle hypothesis already by the early 20th.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Otto|last=Donner|year=1901|title=Die uralaltaischen sprachen|journal=Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen|volume=1|page=130}}</ref>
The Ural-Altaic hypothesis was itself abandoned early in the 20th century.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=241}}
The [[Altaic languages|Altaic]] theory linking Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic is also rejected by most scholars.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|p=238}}
The combination of the Samoyedic and Finnic (Finno-Ugric) classes form the modern [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] family, which is firmly established.{{sfnp|Campbell|Poser|2008|pp=88–94}}
Each of the five classes of Müller's southern division are now considered to belong to separate language families, [[Tai–Kadai languages|Tai–Kadai]], [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]], [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]], [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] and [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] respectively.

The term "Turanian" remained for a time also a synonym for the Ural-Altaic hypothesis.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Adam|last=Lucien|year=1870|title=Linguistique touranienne. Du theme du pronom de la 1re personne|journal=Revue de Linguistique et de Philologie comparée|volume=4|pages=29–40|url=https://archive.org/details/revuedelinguisti04pari/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Wilhelm|last=Pröhle|year=1978|title=Vergleichende Syntax der ural-altäischen (turanischen) Sprachen|location=Wiesbaden|publisher=Harrassowitz}}</ref>