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Altaic   /æltˈeɪɪk/   Listen
Altaic

noun
1.
Any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group.
2.
A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe.  Synonym: Altaic language.
adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.



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Ural-Altaic


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"Altaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... call their country Suomi or Marshland; and it is often spoken of as the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. The language they speak belongs to a group called Finnish-Ugrian, or Altaic, and is allied to Lappish and Esthonian, and more distantly to Turkish and Hungarian, There are only twenty-one letters in the alphabet; the letter J is pronounced like Y (as a consonant), and Y almost as a short I. The first syllable of every word is accented. This renders it difficult to accommodate ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... were inhibited from modifying these consonants in accordance with what seems to have been a general Germanic phonetic drift? Even more striking than these instances is the peculiar resemblance, in certain special phonetic respects, of Russian and other Slavic languages to the unrelated Ural-Altaic languages[168] of the Volga region. The peculiar, dull vowel, for instance, known in Russian as "yeri"[169] has Ural-Altaic analogues, but is entirely wanting in Germanic, Greek, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian, the nearest Indo-European congeners of Slavic. We may at least suspect that the ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir


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