Ural-Altaic
adjective
1.
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.
2.
of or relating to Ural-Altaic.
3.
speaking a Ural-Altaic language.
noun
4.
a postulated family of languages comprising Uralic and Altaic.
noun
1.
a postulated group of related languages consisting of the Uralic and Altaic families of languages
adjective
2.
of or relating to this group of languages, characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony
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