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Micro-Altaic includes about 66 living languages, to which Macro-Altaic would add Korean, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages for a total of about 74.

( These are estimates, depending on what is considered a language and what is considered a dialect.

They do not include earlier states of language, such as Middle Mongol or Old Japanese.

) Micro-Altaic has a total of about 348 million speakers today, Macro-Altaic about 558 million.