Altaic Definition

ăl-tāĭk
noun
A putative language family of Eurasia including Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic.
American Heritage
This group of language families.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Altaic language
adjective
Of or relating to the Altai Mountains.
American Heritage
Of the Altai Mountains or the peoples living there.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to Altaic.
American Heritage
Designating or of a group of language families including Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic.
Webster's New World

Of or pertaining to a hypothetical grouping of languages that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic and less often the Japanese and Korean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group include Turkish, Mongolian and, more controversially, Japanese and Korean.

Wiktionary

Origin of Altaic

  • Altai +‎ -ic

    From Wiktionary

Altaic Sentence Examples

  • The tree is very widely distributed, growing abundantly on most of the mountain ranges of northern and central Europe; while in Asia it occurs at least as far east as the Lena, and in latitude extends from the Altaic ranges to beyond the Arctic circle.

  • In Asia it occurs on the Caucasus and Ural, and in some parts of the Altaic chain.

  • A score of species, it is true - not such a number, be it observed, as was formerly supposed - are common to the Alps and Altai, but absent from the Arctic. But the species composing this Altaic element are not so numerous as the arctico-alpine species that are absent from the Altai.

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Words Starting With

AALALT

Words Ending With

CICAIC

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Altaic

Words Starting With A and Ending With C

Starts With A & Ends With CStarts With AL & Ends With CStarts With A & Ends With IC

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With C