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Ural-Altaic language family is today considered an obsolete concept [1] and the families are considered unrelated

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages

The models / software created for one language mostly fit others. Eg. Two-level finite state morphology was invented for Finnish and was very successfully adopted to parse Turkish words.

So the opinions of Linguists aside, the languages that make up the ural-altaic family are not that far apart from each other.

Yes,but both languages share some important structural similarities. Rich morphology, extreme agglutination and vowel harmony.

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