Ural-Altaic

[ yoor-uhl-al-tey-ik ]

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

noun

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

adjective

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

Example Sentences

Although for nearly a thousand years established in Europe and subjected to Aryan influences, the Magyar has yet retained its essential Ural-Altaic or Turanian features.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

The Finno-Ugrian languages are distinguished from the other divisions of the Ural-Altaic group both in grammar and vocabulary.

From Project Gutenberg

As a race they exhibit manifest evidences of their Ural-Altaic or Mongolic descent in their short stature, absence of beard, oblique eyes, broad face, low forehead and small mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg