"There is general agreement on several typological similarities being widely found among the languages considered under Ural–Altaic:
head-final and subject–object–verb word order
in most of the languages, vowel harmony
morphology that is predominantly agglutinative and suffixing zero copula
non-finite clauses
lack of grammatical gender
lack of consonant clusters in word-initial position
having a separate verb for existential clause which is different from ordinary possession verbs like "to have""