Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Turanian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, n.
One of the Turanians.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, 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 Central Asia; of
pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these
languages.
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