ALTAIC LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Altaic language mean? 

• ALTAIC LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun ALTAIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe

  Familiarity information: ALTAIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALTAIC LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Altaic; Altaic language

Hypernyms ("Altaic language" is a kind of...):

Ural-Altaic (a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Altaic language"):

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)