[blam]

" What I'm saying is that there is no evidence that these groups have a common linguistic heritage or came from a common, identifiable population."

I understand and appreciate your position... I may not make the case to everyone's satifaction and it will probabably be circumstancial. I think the Altai Mountain region will be the key though. Stay tuned.

[edwin hubble]

Altaic languages include Mongolian, Turkish, Korean and Japanese.

Looking at the spread of these countries, it argues the point that there was a lot of migration, adaptation, assimilation.

as Huns became European in culture
some from Europe and western Asia became Oriental in culture.

[blam]

Ping.