ALTAIC LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe

Synonyms:

Altaic; Altaic language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Altaic language" is a kind of...):

Ural-Altaic (a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Altaic language"):

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)

Tungusic; Tungusic language (a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas)

Mongolian; Mongolic; Mongolic language (a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia)

Korean (the Altaic language spoken by Koreans)

Japanese (the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese)