altaic
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1. altaic - Noun
2. altaic - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
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According to this view, the eight-vowel system of ancient Japanese would resemble that of the Uralic and Altaic language families.
Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, usually simultaneously occur in languages.
Bomhard (2008) treats Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European as Eurasiatic daughter groups on equal footing.
Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft I. Lautlehre, 'Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, Volume 1: Phonology', edited and published by Pentti Aalto.
For instance, Altaic languages are proposed to have a rounding harmony superimposed over a backness harmony.
"Genetic connections among the Altaic languages."