ural-altaic

1. 1.

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

   Broadernatural language

   NarrowerAltaicUralic

Questions about ural-altaic

What does ural-altaic mean?

ural-altaic means "a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)".

How many syllables are in ural-altaic?

ural-altaic has 4 syllables: u-ra-l-al-taic. The stress falls on "l-al".

Is ural-altaic a common word?

ural-altaic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.