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Ural-Altaic

DEFINITIONS OF: Ural-Altaic

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n a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)

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Altaic, Altaic language
a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
Uralic, Uralic language
a family of Ural-Altaic languages
Turki, Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar
a subfamily of Altaic languages
Tungusic, Tungusic language
a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas
Mongolian, Mongolic, Mongolic language
a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia
Korean
the Altaic language spoken by Koreans
Japanese
the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese
Finno-Ugrian, Finno-Ugric
a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Lappic, Lappish
any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages
Samoyed, Samoyedic
the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
Type of:
natural language, tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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