ural-altaic

• Nom désignant une hypothétique famille de langues regroupant de nombreuses langues autochtones d'Asie du Nord et d'Europe de l'Est, y compris le turc, le mongol et le toungouse, mais excluant le russe.

A noun referring to a postulated group of languages that includes many of the indigenous languages of Russia, but not Russian.

indénombrable · nom propre

1. Hypothetical language familyC2formal

   A proposed grouping of languages that includes the Uralic and Altaic language families, spoken across northern Eurasia.

   ouralo-altaïque

   • The Ural-Altaic hypothesis has been debated by linguists for decades.
   • Many languages of Russia, excluding Russian itself, are considered part of the Ural-Altaic group.
   • The classification of Turkish as an Altaic language is central to the Ural-Altaic theory.