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Definition of Altaic language

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Altaic Language

Literary usage of Altaic language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Etruscan Language by Isaac Taylor (1876)
"It may, therefore, be asserted not only that the Etruscan decades can be explained by the Altaic languages, but that every Altaic language, from the Baltic ..."

2. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1877)
"It may, therefore, be asserted not only that the Etruscan decades can be explained by the Altaic languages, but that every Altaic language, from the Baltic ..."

3. The History of Language by Henry Sweet (1900)
"... expect a language which must practically be a near approach to the parent Altaic language to have developed inflections thousands of years ago. ..."

4. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"... also made it an Uralo-Altaic language, grouping it, however, with the Turkish or Tatar branch ..."

5. Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions by Claude Reignier Conder (1887)
"426, 1st edition), namely, the Akkadian; and I suggested the comparison of this Altaic language with the hieroglyphs. I also recorded an opinion on the same ..."

6. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"... the manners, the language, and the traditional history of ‘Should the claim of Accadian to be considered an Altaic language bO substantiated, ..."

7. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Mongolian, a subgroup of the Altaic language family, also developed an [h] from the bilabial [</>] of Common Mongolian, although in most Mongolian languages ..."

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