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Definition of Altaic

Altaic
Turanian Tu*ra"ni*an, a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
Altaic
Altaian Al*ta"ian, Altaic Al*ta"ic, a. [Cf. F. alta["i]que.] Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

Meaning of Altaic from wikipedia

- The Altaic (/ælˈteɪ.ɪk/) languages consist of the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic and ****onic...
- Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Altaic, Uraltaic, or Turanic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in...
- Look up Altaic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Altaic languages is a hypothetical language family that was proposed to include the Turkic, Mongolian...
- This is a list of mythologies native to Asia: Buddhist mythology Chinese mythology Christian mythology (in Western Asia) Georgian mythology Gr**** mythology...
- similarities have led some linguists (including Talât Tekin) to propose an Altaic language family, though this proposal is widely rejected by historical linguists...
- which are the combination of the Uralic and Altaic families, hence also referred to as the term Ural–Altaic race.[page needed] Anthropologists of the 19th...
- Asia have long been linked in a hypothetical, controversial and unproven Altaic family. These are the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic (including Manchu), Koreanic...
- ****anese people (****anese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the ****anese archipelago. ****anese people constitute 97.4%...
- Koreanic languages are sometimes included in the now largely discredited Altaic family. The currently most supported view is that the ****onic languages...
- race", corresponding to other writers' "Mongoloid race", consisted of "the Altaic, Mongol, Finnish and Tartar branches". While he saw the "white race" as...