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Altaian, a. and n.|ælˈteɪɪən|
[a. Fr. altaïen f. Altai (mountains in Asia): see -an.]
A term applied by Castrèn to the peoples and languages lying between the Altai Mountains and Arctic Ocean; called by some ethnologists Ugro-Finnish.
1874tr. Peschel's Races of Man. (1876) 377 This group of nations which Castrèn has named Altaians is closely allied to the Eastern and Southern Asiatics. |
