Crossword clues for altaic
altaic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
Altaian \Al*ta"ian\, Altaic \Al*ta"ic\, a. [Cf. F. alta["i]que.] Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
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.
Altaic \Altaic\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to the Altaic languages. Altaic languages
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832 as a linguistic family, from French Altaïque, from Altaïen, from Altai, name of a mountain range in Asia.
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.