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

Example Sentences

We may at least suspect that the Slavic vowel is not historically unconnected with its Ural-Altaic parallels.

From Project Gutenberg

They belong to the Finnish family, and consequently to the Ural-Altaic division of the human race.

From Project Gutenberg

Turkish is the westernmost representative of a great group of languages, best known, perhaps, as the Ural-Altaic family.

From Project Gutenberg