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Language family including Turkish
Answer for the clue "Language family including Turkish ", 6 letters:
altaic
Alternative clues for the word altaic
- Language family including Mongolian
- Turkic or Mongolic language
- Of a Soviet range
- Putative language family that includes Uzbek
- Eurasian language family
- Any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
- A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
- Asian language group
Word definitions for altaic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Altaic \Altaic\ n. 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.
Usage examples of altaic.
Guided by this clew, it was easy to prove that the grammar and vocabulary of the 3000 Etruscan inscriptions were also Altaic.
If anyone questions this, look at his Imperial stupidities in the Altaic Cluster.
He showed that these words were identical with the first six digits in the Altaic branch of the Turanian family of speech.
American Indian legend, and offered death-bound devil dogs romping through Altaic shamanic ritual and pre-Classical Greek thought and the HinduMahabharata , while all of it pointed straight back to old Anubis and his Egyptian underworld pals.
We had a man in from the university here, the comparative linguistics department -- you probably know him, Malmstrom's his name -- and he said it sounded to him like an Altaic language, maybe Turkic -- is that right, Turkic?
Among major expansions of the last millennium are those that carried Indo-European languages from Europe to the Americas and Australia, the Russian language from eastern Europe across Siberia, and Turkish (a language of the Altaic family) from Central Asia westward to Turkey.
If, indeed, it is a language, I am prepared to state categorically that it has no relation to Uralic, Altaic nor to the Sino-Tibetan language groups.