Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A putative language family of Eurasia including Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic.
- adjective Of or relating to the Altai Mountains.
- adjective Of or relating to Altaic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Altai, a vast range of mountains extending in an easterly direction through a considerable portion of Asia, and forming part of the boundary between the Russian and Chinese dominions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to the Altaic languages.
- noun a collective term for a group of related linguistic families including the Turkic, Tungusik and Mongolian languages, spoken over a broad area from southeastern Europe and Asia, as far east as the Pacific.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a hypothetical
grouping oflanguages that includes theTurkic ,Mongolic , andTungusic and less often theJapanese andKorean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group includeTurkish ,Mongolian and, more controversially,Japanese andKorean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
- adjective of or pertaining to or written in Altaic
- noun a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
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Examples
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What business has one to class the Chinese and Japanese together, and to speak of them (as I shall) as 'Altaic' -- the _Altaic Race?
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish – Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural – Altaic stem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Confucianism, and Shinto are the three great native creations, in religion, of what I shall call the Altaic mind.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish-Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural-Altaic stem.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Turkish and the Finnish-Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I do think the languages are related, but not in an exclusive "Altaic" grouping without Uralic, Indo-European, and your Aegean family.
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I would not be surprised if many shared features of "Altaic" languages are of this "archaic" nature.
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-- So there you have the 'Altaic' Race; Altaic, as Mr. Dooley is
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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They are marked by candor, fairness, insight, and a mastery of difficult themes that makes his readers his constant debtors.] [Footnote 4: "If the term 'Altaic' be held to include Korean and
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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I had thought Korean was related to Chinese, but it is actually in the Altaic language family, which connects Japanese and Korean with the languages of the Asian steppes and Turkish.
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