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.
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British Dictionary definitions for Ural-Altaic
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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