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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Example Sentences
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These groups were descended from Ural-Altaic, Chinese, and Austro-Asiatic peoples.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
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
Uled-Bella, the, 469 Uled-Embark, the, 469 Uled-en-Nasúr, the, 469 Ulu Ayar, the, 230, 426 Umbrians, the, 513, 529 Ural-Altaic peoples.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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)
The Samoyeds are reckoned, along with the Tungoose, the Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish-Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural-Altaic stem.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard
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