Ural-Altaic
[ yoo r-uh l-al-tey-ik ]
/ ˈyʊər əl ælˈteɪ ɪk /
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.
noun
Example sentences from the Web for ural-altaic
Turkish is the westernmost representative of a great group of languages, best known, perhaps, as the Ural-Altaic family.
They belong to the Finnish family, and consequently to the Ural-Altaic division of the human race.
We may at least suspect that the Slavic vowel is not historically unconnected with its Ural-Altaic parallels.
Language |Edward Sapir
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