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Ural-Altaic
[ yoor-uhl-al-tey-ik ]
adjective
- 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.
- of or relating to Ural-Altaic.
- speaking a Ural-Altaic language.
Ural-Altaic
noun
- a postulated group of related languages consisting of the Uralic and Altaic families of languages
adjective
- of or relating to this group of languages, characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony
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We may at least suspect that the Slavic vowel is not historically unconnected with its Ural-Altaic parallels.
From Project Gutenberg
They belong to the Finnish family, and consequently to the Ural-Altaic division of the human race.
From Project Gutenberg
Turkish is the westernmost representative of a great group of languages, best known, perhaps, as the Ural-Altaic family.
From Project Gutenberg
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