Ural-Altaic languages
The Ural-Altaic
language family (also known as Uralo-Altaic) is an
hypothetical grouping of the
Uralic and
Altaic languages into one field. The word
Turanian has also been used to describe the Ural-Altaic field and its people. The term is from the
Transoxiana,
Turān.The Ural-Altaic grouping is speculative, as it has not been proven to the satisfaction of most linguists that there is any genetic relationship between the two language families, and even the existence of the Altaic group as one family is today questioned. This could be for lack of analytic opportunity, however. On the other hand, particularly the southern and central Uralic languages have been in extensive contact with Turkic languages, which introduces a risk of interpreting exchange arising from contact as a genetic relationship.
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Turanian
(n.)
One of the Turanians.
(a.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Turanian
Turanian A word of vague meaning, used as an alternative to Mongolian in that scheme which divides humanity into three main divisions of
1) Black, Ethiopian, or Negro;
2) Yellow, Mongolian, or Turanian; and
3) White, Caucasian. It thus excludes Aryans, Semites, and Hamites, which are subdivisions of the Caucasian; also it incorrectly gives Ethiopian as synonymous with Negro.
The name is derived from Tur, one of three brothers in Persian legend who were ancestors of three divisions of the human race. In accordance with the idea of basing ethnography upon linguistics, it has since been replaced by the word Ural-Altaic, as denoting a group of peoples and their languages in northern and central
Asia, eastern Russian, and Turks, Magyars, Finns, Basques, and Lapps in Europe. The languages are agglutinative.