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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.
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
Example Sentences
Although for nearly a thousand years established in Europe and subjected to Aryan influences, the Magyar has yet retained its essential Ural-Altaic or Turanian features.
But no admixture, except of Chinese literary terms, is seen in the Manchu language, which, like Mongolic, is a typical member of the agglutinating Ural-Altaic family.
The Finno-Ugrian languages are distinguished from the other divisions of the Ural-Altaic group both in grammar and vocabulary.
As a race they exhibit manifest evidences of their Ural-Altaic or Mongolic descent in their short stature, absence of beard, oblique eyes, broad face, low forehead and small mouth.
These four classes, together with the Samoyedic, constitute the northern or Ural-Altaic division of the Turanian family.
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