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
On the other hand, the more highly developed agglutinative languages, such as Finnish, approach the inflected Aryan type, so that the Aryan languages may have been developed from an ancestor not unlike the Ural-Altaic group.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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
These four classes, together with the Samoyedic, constitute the northern or Ural-Altaic division of the Turanian family.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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 Haddon, Alfred Court
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