'Ural-Altaic' definitions:
Definition of 'Ural-Altaic'
(from WordNet)
noun
A (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
Definition of 'Ural-Altaic'
From: GCIDE
- Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, pr. 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 in Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ural-Altaic'
From: GCIDE
- Ural-Altaic \U"ral-Al*ta"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages. [1913 Webster]