altaic








noun

  1. the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic language families collectively, spoken over a broad expanse of Eurasia, from southeastern Europe to the Pacific: variously considered to be a single, genetically related family, with Japanese and Korean sometimes also included, or a group of languages with shared typologies and histories, but not genetically akin.

adjective

  1. of or belonging to Altaic.
  2. of or relating to the Altai Mountains.

noun

  1. a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and AinuSee also Ural-Altaic

adjective

  1. denoting, belonging to, or relating to this linguistic family or its speakers

1832 as a linguistic family, from French Altaïque, from Altaïen, from Altai, name of a mountain range in Asia.

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