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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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These groups were descended from Ural-Altaic, Chinese, and Austro-Asiatic peoples.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Through these the student traces an early mixture of races—the Malay, the Mongolian, and the Ural-Altaic.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

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

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

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)

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