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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)
Familiarity information: URAL-ALTAIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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