Crossword-Solution: ALTAIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Altaic | a. | Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALTAIC | anagram | LICATA |
We have 18 clues for the answer “ALTAIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Asian-language family | 1 answer |
| Turkic or Mongolic language | 1 answer |
| Relating to Siberian mountains. | 1 answer |
| Putative language family that includes Uzbek | 1 answer |
| Of mountains in Central Asia. | 1 answer |
| Of a Soviet range | 1 answer |
| Language family that includes Turkic and Korean | 1 answer |
| Language family including Turkish | 1 answer |
| Language family including Mongolian | 1 answer |
| LANGUAGE comprising Turkish, Mongol and Tungus | 1 answer |
| Eurasian language group | 1 answer |
| Eurasian language family | 1 answer |
| Asian language group | 2 answers |
| UIGHURS, language of the | 2 answers |
| UIGURS, language of the | 2 answers |
| UYGURS, language of the | 2 answers |
| Language of Asia. | 3 answers |
| Turkic tongue | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALTAIC (5)
Guided by this clew, it was easy to prove that the grammar and vocabulary of the 3000 Etruscan inscriptions were also Altaic.
Both the Huns of Attila and those of Arpad came from the family of nomadic nations, whose primitive regions were those vast wildernesses of High Asia which are included between the Altaic and the Himalayan mountain-chains.
Other peculiarities characteristic of the Altaic languages are the vocal harmony occurring in many of them, the inability to have more than one consonant in the beginning of a word, and the expression of the plural by a peculiar affix, the case terminations being the same in the plural as in the singular.
The affinity between the different branches of the Altaic stem is thus founded mainly on analogy or resemblance in the construction of the languages, while the different tongues in the material of language (both in the words themselves and in the expression of relations) show a very limited affinity or none at all.
The strong resemblance of the hymns of the Ṛig Veda to those of the Avesta is in favour of the less ancient date, but the date of the Gathas can hardly be regarded as certain.] [Footnote 110: Linguistically there seems to be two distinct divisions, the Dravidians and the Munda (Kolarian).] [Footnote 111: The affinity between the Dravidian and Ural-Altaic groups of languages has often been suggested but has met with scepticism.
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1948–2014).