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Ural-Altaic

noun
Ural-Al·ta·ic | \ ˌyu̇r-əl-al-ˈtā-ik \

Definition of Ural-Altaic 

: a postulated language family comprising the Uralic and Altaic languages

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1853, in the meaning defined above

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