Sino-Uralic languages
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Sino-Uralic or Sino-Finnic is a long-range linguistic proposal that links the Sinitic languages (Chinese) and the Uralic languages. Sino-Uralic is proposed as an alternative to the Sino-Tibetan family[1][2][3] and is at odds with mainstream comparative linguistics, which firmly includes the Sinitic languages in the Sino-Tibetan family.[4] The proposal has been brought forward by the Chinese linguist Jingyi Gao, based on works by 19th century linguists such as Karl August Hermann. Gao suggested the proto-population could have lived in Neolithic China and carried the Haplogroup N, claiming that a common proto-language could have been spoken around 5,000–10,000 years ago.[5][6][7] However, connections with the Uralic and other language families are generally seen as speculative.[8]