What's the difference between altaic and turanian?
Altaic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) So one may assume that the Indoeuropean tongues of (West) Europe overlaid a common substratum of Ural-Altaic type which was alive still in the time of Megalithicum.
(2) The analysis of the two endechas and of 12 clauses tolerably handed down shows an Altaic language of an early type which still consists of words and formatives surviving only in one or two of the today's Altaic daughter-languages as Turkish, Mongolian, and Tunguso-Manchu, only seldom in all of them.
(3) A comparison of the two former, high-altitude, populations showed the changes to occur more frequently (by 7.3%) in Khangai population, as compared to Gobi-Altaic residents (p less than 0.05), suggesting that the development of nonspecific myocardial changes is influenced by other, more forceful, factors, such as cold, as well as the altitude factor.
(4) The conicidence of surviving both of Crô-Magnon-typical men and of the archaic Altaic language on the Canary Islands as a reservation of megalithic civilization up to the Middle Ages (XVIth century) approves the hypothesis mentioned above.
(5) Only individual values are reported in one clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), in one leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), in one Corbett's tiger (Panthera tigris Corbetti) and in one Altaic tiger (Panthera tigris Altaica).
(6) The suffixes of the nominal declension in the Old Canary and Etruscan languages are very similar to the corresponding elements of the Sumerian and Ural-Altaic tongues.
(7) VELDEN produced many evidences in favour of the hypothesis the Teutons to be a mixture of the Old European Cro-Magnons speaking an archaic ural-altaic idiom with the Indo-Europeans immigrating into Europe from Asia.
(8) the Altaic stratum) passed for unintelligible until the summer of 1977.
Turanian
Definition:
(a.) 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 Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.