31. However, it has been difficult to find Ural Altaic words shared across all involved language families. 32. For instance, Altaic languages are proposed to have a rounding harmony superimposed over a backness harmony. 33. The stag and its relatives, however, figure as prominently in Altaic as in Scythian art. 34. Baianai is sometimes a woodland fairy or protector spirit found in Turkic-Altaic folklore and mythology. 35. Despite his subjective anti-Ural-Altaic opinions, I dont favor any theory above others. 36. If Altaic is a legitimate family, the similarities would get bigger in the early proto-languages. 37. The similarities between these two families led to their retention in a common grouping, named Ural Altaic . 38. The Sami drum-stick term is'b�llin'; the Altaic term is'orba '. 39. Indeed, nobody has suggested an ethnic group such as Altaic people, and neither does this article. 40. There is google books that gives 544 returns on Uralic peoples and 1, 391 on Altaic peoples.