Ural-Altaic

/ˌˈjʊrəl ˈælˌteɪɪk/

Definitions of Ural-Altaic

1. noun

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

   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