Ural-Altaic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Ural-Altaic
    n 1: a (postulated) group of languages including many of the
         indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, pr. a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian
   legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom
   sprang the races of mankind.]
   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 in Central Asia; of
   pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these
   languages.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ural-Altaic \U"ral-Al*ta"ic\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the
   Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
   [1913 Webster]