ural-altaic(n = noun.communication) - a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian);
is a kind of natural language, tongue
has particulars: altaic, altaic language, uralic, uralic language
Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages. [1913 Webster]
ural-altaic, n. & adj.
--n. Philol. a family of Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Mongolian, and other agglutinative languages of N. Europe and Asia.
--adj.
1 of or relating to this family of languages.
2 of or relating to the Ural and Altaic mountain ranges in the USSR and central Asia.