Ural-Altaic

[yoor-uhl-al-tey-ik]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Ural Mountains, on the border between the Russian Federation in Europe and Siberia, and the Altai Mountains, in S Siberia and NW Mongolia, or the country or peoples around them.

2. of or relating to Ural-Altaic.

3. speaking a Ural-Altaic language.

noun

1. a postulated family of languages comprising Uralic and Altaic.

Ural-Altaic

noun

1. a postulated group of related languages consisting of the Uralic and Altaic families of languages

adjective

1. of or relating to this group of languages, characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony