Altaic
English
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Adjective
Altaic (not comparable)
- 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 Japanese and Korean languages.
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pertaining to the group of languages
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