Ural-Altaic
Americanadjective
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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.
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of or relating to Ural-Altaic.
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speaking a Ural-Altaic language.
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These groups were descended from Ural-Altaic, Chinese, and Austro-Asiatic peoples.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
We may at least suspect that the Slavic vowel is not historically unconnected with its Ural-Altaic parallels.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
It was transformed toward the VII century by the invasion of a brachycephalic Scythian people of Ural-Altaic origin.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
But no admixture, except of Chinese literary terms, is seen in the Manchu language, which, like Mongolic, is a typical member of the agglutinating Ural-Altaic family.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
The Samoyeds are reckoned, along with the Tungoose, the Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish-Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural-Altaic stem.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
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