Altaic Linguistics

Altaic can be broken up into two main groups: Turkic and Mongolian languages. Korean and Japanese are also included in the Altaic family by some linguists, but confucian ideals and respect-based speech combined with various loanwords from Chinese have obscured that connection somewhat. Tungusic is also considered by some to be part of the Altaic family.

Altaic languages are agglutinative and as such fairly flexible.

woman speaking Mongolian with Korean subtitles. You can notice the phonological difference and structural similarity between the two languages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsUcfA-6ow&feature=related