What does "altaic" mean?

a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe

Altaic

Common synonyms include: altai region related, altai regional, altaic hypothesis, altaic individual, altaic language, altaic language.

/ælˈteɪ.ɪk/ adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Noun

1
a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe wordnet
2
any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group wordnet

Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japonic and Koreanic languages. not-comparable

Adjective

"These are all languages of the Altaic language family group."

From Altai + -ic.