Altaic (Noun)

Meaning ¹

A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe.

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Examples

• The Altaic language family includes Turkish, Mongolian, and Manchu, among others.
• Scholars have long debated the classification of the Altaic languages and their relationships to other language families.
• The Altaic languages are spoken by millions of people across Asia and southeastern Europe, from Turkey to Mongolia.
• Some linguists consider the Altaic languages to be a language family, while others view them as a language area or a Sprachbund.
• The Altaic languages have a number of distinctive grammatical features, including agglutinative morphology and subject-object-verb word order.

Synonyms

• Altaic Language

Hyponyms

• Mongolic Language
• Turkic
• Turkic Language
• Mongolic
• Turko-Tatar
• Tungusic Language

Related Words

• Altaic (adjective)

Meaning ²

Any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group.

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Hypernyms

• Asiatic

Related Words

• Altaic (adjective)