How do you use Altaic in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like asian or asiatic, plus the exact meaning.
Altaic meaning
Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japonic and Koreanic languages.
Using Altaic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japonic and Koreanic languages.
- Useful related words include: ural-altaic, asian, asiatic, altaic language.
- In the example corpus, altaic often appears in combinations such as: and altaic, altaic languages, the altaic.
Context around Altaic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Altaic
- In this selection, "altaic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, proto, ural, newest, languages, language and hypothesis stand out and add context to how "altaic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2003 see altaic languages article and across the altaic family from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "altaic" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with altaic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages. (6 words)
Japanese, Korean, and other ‘non-Altaic’ languages. (7 words)
Bomhard (2008) treats Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European as Eurasiatic daughter groups on equal footing. (15 words)
It contains 2,800 proposed cognate sets, a set of sound laws based on those proposed sets, and a number of grammatical correspondences, as well as a few important changes to the reconstruction of Proto-Altaic. (36 words)
List of Altaicists and critics of Altaic Note: This list is limited to linguists who have worked specifically on the Altaic problem since the publication of the first volume of Ramstedt's Einführung in 1952. (35 words)
Similarly, the paper by Kaiser and Shevoroshkin is much older than the newest Altaic Etymological Dictionary (2003; see Altaic languages article) and therefore assumes a somewhat different phonological system for Proto-Altaic. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Similarly, the paper by Kaiser and Shevoroshkin is much older than the newest Altaic Etymological Dictionary (2003; see Altaic languages article) and therefore assumes a somewhat different phonological system for Proto-Altaic.
List of Altaicists and critics of Altaic Note: This list is limited to linguists who have worked specifically on the Altaic problem since the publication of the first volume of Ramstedt's Einführung in 1952.
According to this view, the eight-vowel system of ancient Japanese would resemble that of the Uralic and Altaic language families.
Bomhard (2008) treats Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European as Eurasiatic daughter groups on equal footing.
Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft I. Lautlehre, 'Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, Volume 1: Phonology', edited and published by Pentti Aalto.
For instance, Altaic languages are proposed to have a rounding harmony superimposed over a backness harmony.
Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, usually simultaneously occur in languages.
Georg et al. 1999: 81 Another view accepts Altaic as a valid family but includes in it only Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic.
Greenberg 2000:17 Evidence for a genetic relationship Some linguists point out strong similarities in the personal pronouns of Uralic and Altaic languages.
However, it has been difficult to find Ural–Altaic words shared across all involved language families.
However, while the Ural–Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has generally been abandoned by linguists.
In 2003, Claus Schönig published a critical overview of the history of the Altaic hypothesis up to that time.
Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 69 (Bloomington/The Hague: Mouton, 1968) * Thomsen, Vilhelm.
In the middle of words, clusters of two consonants were allowed in Proto-Altaic as reconstructed by Starostin et al.
It contains 2,800 proposed cognate sets, a set of sound laws based on those proposed sets, and a number of grammatical correspondences, as well as a few important changes to the reconstruction of Proto-Altaic.
It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese- Ryukyuan ) language family, whose relation to other language groups, particularly to Korean and the suggested Altaic language family, is debated.
Its plural was /namu tachi/ (奈牟多知). citation Other basic vocabulary The following table is a brief selection of further proposed cognates in basic vocabulary across the Altaic family (from Starostin et al.
Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages.
Japanese, Korean, and other ‘non-Altaic’ languages.
Most importantly, the 'Altaic' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship.
Common combinations with altaic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: