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Ural-Altaic

Ural-Altaic proper noun: a grouping of the Uralic language family with the Altaic languages, formerly considered a language family, now treated as an area of linguistic convergence, or possibly a sprachbund (like Altaic itself).

Proper noun

Ural-Altaic

  1. A grouping of the Uralic language family with the Altaic languages, formerly considered a language family, now treated as an area of linguistic convergence, or possibly a sprachbund (like Altaic itself).

Questions about Ural-Altaic

What does Ural-Altaic mean?
Ural-Altaic means a grouping of the Uralic language family with the Altaic languages, formerly considered a language family, now treated as an area of linguistic convergence, or possibly a sprachbund (like Altaic itself).
What part of speech is Ural-Altaic?
Ural-Altaic is a proper noun.

Words near Ural-Altaic in the dictionary

  1. Ural
  2. Ural Federal District
  3. Ural Mountains
  4. Ural owl
  5. Ural owls
  6. Ural-Altaic
  7. Uralba
  8. uralborite
  9. urali
  10. Uralian
  11. Uralian emerald

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