Ural-Altaic
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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
There is incorporation with the verb, as in Basque, many of the Caucasus tongues, and the Ural-Altaic group; but it is everywhere limited to pronominal and purely relational elements.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Finno-Ugric languages are generally considered as a division of the Ural-Altaic group, which consists of four families: Turkish, Mongol, Manchu and Finno-Ugric, including Samoyede unless it is reckoned separately as a fifth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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
With the Chukchi, the Koryaks, the Kamchadales, and the Gilyaks they form a separate branch of the Mongolic division sometimes grouped together as "Hyperboreans," but distinguished from other Ural-Altaic peoples perhaps strictly on linguistic grounds.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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