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Altaic, a. and n.|ælˈteɪɪk|
[ad. Fr. altaïque, f. as prec.: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Altai Mountains, or to a family of languages comprising Turkish, Mongol, and Tungus.
B. n. The Altaic family of languages.
1832W. Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xxviii. 415 Between the Altaic range and Teen-shan are Zungaria and the basin of the Ele. 1850Latham Var. Man. 15 The term Altaic is taken from the Altai mountains in Central Asia. 1887C. R. Conder (title) Altaic hieroglyphs and Hittite inscriptions. 1905Dublin Rev. Jan. 190 The Finns..belong rather to the Altaic group. 1933Bloomfield Lang. iv. 68 The Turkish (Turco-Tartar or Altaic) family of languages covers a vast main area, from Asia Minor, conquered, at the end of the Middle Ages, by the Ottoman Turks... These languages..are spoken by some 39 millions of people: Turkish, Tartar, Kirgiz, Uzbeg, Azerbaijani are the more familiar language-names. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 10 Altaic, a sub-family (also called Turco-Tartaric or Turkish) of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. It consists of three main branches: Turkic, Mongol and Manchu or Tungus... Some linguists consider Mongol and Manchu distinct sub-families of the Ural-Altaic family, and consider only the members of the Turkic group as the true Altaic languages; hence the alternative designation Turkish for the Altaic sub-family. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. 303/1 At one time the Altaic family was considered to be related to the Uralian languages, but this view is no longer held. |