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URAL-ALTAIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ural-Altaic mean? 

URAL-ALTAIC (noun)
  The noun URAL-ALTAIC has 1 sense:

1. a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


URAL-ALTAIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Ural-Altaic" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

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

Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)

Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)


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