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Definition of: Altaic
(al·tā′ik) noun
A family of agglutinative languages of Europe and Asia, generally considered to comprise the Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungusic subfamilies: sometimes classified with Uralic in a Ural-Altaic family.
—adjective
1. Of the Altai Mountains.
2. Pertaining to the peoples and languages of the Ural-Altaic stock; Turanian. Also Altaian.
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