Altaianadj.n.

1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia I. Introd. p. lxvi The regions from north to south between Siberia and the greater and lesser Bucharia, and from east to west from the Altaian mountains to the Kalkas Mongouls.

1828 New Monthly Mag. 24 216/2 It is the professor's intention to publish an Altaian Flora.

1840 E. Hitchcock Elem. Geol. 316 The geology of the Uralian mountains, which separate Siberia from Europe, is similar to the Altaian range in its general features.

1911 Cambr. Medieval Hist. I. 342 To share the domestic work would be for an Altaian paterfamilias an unheard-of humiliation.

1938 Times 9 Aug. 51/1 The lilt of this pure and divine lyricism survives in the songs of the Altaian Turks.

2008 B. Tedlock in B. G. Smith Oxf. Encycl. Women in World Hist. (Electronic text) at Shamanism Among the Altaian nomads in Siberia..there are..sources that indicate that women were the only shamans from the fourth through the eighth centuries.

1817 H. Adams Dict. All Relig. (ed. 4) App. 338 Some [Tartars] attach great importance to..their whiskers; and the Altaians are so fond of military show, that they dress up their idol deity in the uniform of an officer of dragoons.

1874 tr. O. Peschel Races of Man (1876) 377 This group of nations which Castrèn has named Altaians is closely allied to the Eastern and Southern Asiatics.

1910 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics III. 12/1 Among the Altaians it [sc. an image of God] is named Kurmes.

2011 Encycl. Islam (Online ed.) s.v. Altaians The Altaians are a Siberian Turkic-speaking people living in the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation and adjoining regions. In 1989, they numbered over seventy thousand.