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Altaic

//ælˈteɪ.ɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to or written in Altaic wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe wordnet
  2. 2
    any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group wordnet

Etymology

From Altai + -ic.

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