Associations to the word «Altaic»
Noun
- Ural
- Turkic
- Korean
- Mongolian
- Uzbek
- Linguist
- Japanese
- Lan
- European
- Hypothesis
- Grouping
- Micro
- Language
- Vowel
- Similarity
- Verb
- Harmony
- Asia
- Speaker
- Branch
- Proposal
- Relationship
- Kazakh
- Family
- Phonology
- Linguistics
- Theory
- Central
- Mongol
- Shaman
- Mongolia
- Linguistic
- Niger
- Bloomington
- Morphology
- Group
- Sergei
- Finnish
- Word
- Phoneme
- Suffix
- Lexicon
- Numeral
- Turkish
- Subgroup
- Na
- Adjective
- Uzbekistan
- Purification
- Mines
- Pronoun
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- Kazakhstan
- Congo
- Etymology
- Turk
- Indiana
- Proponent
- Correspondence
- Affinity
- Grammar
- Consonant
- Dictionary
Adjective
Wiktionary
ALTAIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to a hypothetical grouping of languages that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic and less often the Japanese and Korean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group include Turkish, Mongolian and, more controversially, Japanese and Korean.
Dictionary definition
ALTAIC, noun. Any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group.
ALTAIC, noun. A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe.
ALTAIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
Wise words
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those
symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.