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]
, n. & adj.
--n. the group of Asian languages that are neither Semitic nor Indo-European, esp. the Ural-Altaic family.
--adj. of or relating to this group.