Altai

¹ American  

[al-tahy, uhl-tahy] / ˈæl taɪ, ʌlˈtaɪ /

Or Altay

noun

1. a territory of the Russian Federation in central Asia. 101,000 sq. mi. (261,700 sq. km). Barnaul.

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Altai ² American  

[al-tahy] / ˈæl taɪ /

noun

PLURAL

Altais

PLURAL

Altai

1. a member of a grouping of peoples living mainly in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation.

2. the Turkic language of the Altai.

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Example Sentences

Six came from the mountainous Altai region near/in Mongolia, dating to between 5500 and 7500 years ago.

From Science Magazine

Five of these so-called Altai hunter-gatherers belonged to a population that apparently gave rise to several later peoples who spread throughout the Central Asian steppe during the Bronze Age.

From Science Magazine

In August, the Department for Family and Children in Russia’s Krasnodar region posted a statement on its website that more than 1,000 children from Ukraine had been adopted by families in distant cities including Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and even the Altai Territory, more than 2,000 miles from Ukraine.

From Washington Post

Unlike many archaeological sites, which contain fossils built up over long periods, genetic studies on 11 Neanderthals found in the Chagyrskaya Cave — in the Altai Mountains, near the Russian border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China — showed many of them were close relatives, suggesting they all lived around the same time.

From Washington Post

A direct flight to Kazakhstan, where he has relatives, was impossible due to high demand, so Buribayev flew to Kazan in southwest Russia and then thousands of kilometres east to Barnaul in the Altai region of Siberia.

From Reuters