Ural-Altaic

American  

[yoor-uhl-al-tey-ik] / ˈyʊər əl ælˈteɪ ɪk /

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.

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noun

1. a postulated family of languages comprising Uralic and Altaic.

Ural-Altaic British  

noun

1. a postulated group of related languages consisting of the Uralic and Altaic families of languages

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adjective

1. of or relating to this group of languages, characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

These four classes, together with the Samoyedic, constitute the northern or Ural-Altaic division of the Turanian family.

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They had then a considerable mixture of Chinese and Korean blood, but had developed a distinct nationality and kept their ancient Ural-Altaic language.

From Project Gutenberg

It was transformed toward the VII century by the invasion of a brachycephalic Scythian people of Ural-Altaic origin.

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