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n. - A (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian).

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  • And others try the controversial Ural-Altaic route.
  • Was that in Maths, Ural-Altaic languages, ... or some tedious non-subject?
  • The Bulgars, a people of mixed Ural-Altaic and Indo-European origin, had pressed westward through the lands of today's southern Russia and Ukraine.
  • Predominant in the religious systems of Siberia and the Ural-Altaic peoples, it also played an important -- if somewhat more subordinate role -- in North America and...
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