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Nov 9, 2009
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U•ral-Al•ta•ic



Pronunciation: (yoor'ul-al-tā'ik), [key]
—adj.
1. of or pertaining to the Ural Mountains, on the border between the Russian Federation in Europe and Siberia, and the Altai Mountains, in S Siberia and NW Mongolia, or the country or peoples around them.
2. of or pertaining to Ural-Altaic.
3. speaking a Ural-Altaic language.

—n.
a postulated family of languages comprising Uralic and Altaic.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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