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
Uled-Bella, the, 469 Uled-Embark, the, 469 Uled-en-Nasúr, the, 469 Ulu Ayar, the, 230, 426 Umbrians, the, 513, 529 Ural-Altaic peoples.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Therefore, for Turanian == Ural-Altaic, or the northeastern branch.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Mongol, mong′gol, n. and adj. one of an Asiatic people belonging to the Ural-Altaic branch of the human family, mainly inhabiting Mongolia.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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 Hakluyt, Richard
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