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The Macro-Tungusic languages (also Northeast-Asiatic) is a proposed language family in East Asia und Siberia. Macro-Tungusic includes the Tungusic languages, the Korean language and the Japanese language. Several linguists, especially James Marshall Unger (1960), Alexander Vovin (2001) and Lars Johanson (2010), show strong similarities between Tungusic, Korean and Japanese and belife that they have a common genetic origin. The proposed Urheimat is located in today Manchuria, along the Amur river.

The relation between Korean and Japanese is mostly accepted. The relation to the Tungusic languages is plausible and supported by several linguists. Mostly all supporters of this theory are against a relation with the Altaic languages (Turkic and Mongolic) and dismiss the controversial similarities as language contact.

The components of the Macro-Tungusic languages

 * Macro-Tungusic
 * Buyeo languages
 * Koreanic languages
 * Korean language
 * Japonic languages
 * Japanese language
 * Ryukyuan languages
 * Tungusic languages
 * Northern-Tungusic
 * Southern-Tungusic (Amur Tungusic)
 * Southwest-Tungusic (Manchu language)

Arguments
All three language families show identicall grammar and honorifics. Other similarities are:


 * all three languages are agglutinative,
 * follow the SOV order,
 * nouns and adjectives follow the same syntax,
 * particles are post-positional,
 * modifiers always precede modified words.

The phonology and the language syntax of Tungusic, Korean and Japanese are very similar and all three languages share some basic vocabulary.

Historic information
Ancient chinese chronics say the Tungusic languages are most similar with the languages of Goguryeo, Silla and Wa (Japan) but they are not completelly the same. The Tungusic language of the Mohe people was most similar to the Sillan language and fast to learn for Japanese.