Altai
1 Americannoun
noun
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Altais,
plural
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Altai
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a member of a grouping of peoples living mainly in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation.
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the Turkic language of the Altai.
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In 2016, a boy was diagnosed with a strand of plague after handling a marmot in Russia’s Altai region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Pazyryk "ice mummies" were found inside ice tombs in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the 19th century, but it has been difficult to see the tattoos.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
Birch trees, however, grow commonly in the Mongolian Altai, suggesting that locals had crafted the saddle themselves, not traded for it.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
And as a more ancient example, genetic analyses have revealed that women migrated 54,000 years ago in clans of Neandertals in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2023
Surely Papa would recognize the face, my signature, and the word Altai.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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