altaic : Idioms & Phrases


altaic language

  • noun a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
    Altaic.
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ural-altaic

  • noun a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
WordNet
U"ral-Al*ta"ic adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
Webster 1913