Abstract
In this paper, a group of languages (Turkish, Mongolian, Evenki, Korean and Japanese in comparison with Arabic, English and Chinese) will be investigated in terms of how linguistically and geographically distant they are according to the related data of these well-defined language samples in WALS. Then, depending on Holman et al. (2007) and applying a counting method offered by Uzun (2012b) we will investigate how much their linguistic differences are in correlation with geographic distances. With reference to the acquired findings, the aim of this study is to discover whether the differentiation of these languages is closer to the related languages or to the unrelated ones, and to make a contribution to the Altaic debates.
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