The Ural-Altaic theory: Are Finns and Hungarians related to Turkish and Japanese people?

Описание: This is a short video on the Ural-Altaic theory, which was an old theory proposing that Uralic and "Altaic" languages were related. While all Uralic macrofamilies are highly controversial, Ural-Altaic has almost definitively been ruled out as a provable linguistic theory, with theories such as Uralic-Yukaghir or Uralo-Inuit being more commonly discussed in the modern day.

However, it remains an interesting footnote within Uralic linguistics. Although very distant relations (like Eurasiatic) are always historically plausible, it is often believed that as after enough change happens, it becomes statistically very difficult to distinguish relation from random chance.