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Ural-Altaic

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U·ral-Al·ta·ic  (yrl-l-tk)
n.
A hypothetical language group that comprises the Uralic and Altaic language families. Also called Turanian.

Ural-Al·taic adj.

Ural-Altaic
n
(Linguistics / Languages) a postulated group of related languages consisting of the Uralic and Altaic families of languages
adj
(Linguistics / Languages) of or relating to this group of languages, characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony
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Noun1.Ural-Altaic - a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Altaic language, Altaic - a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
Uralic, Uralic language - a family of Ural-Altaic languages


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