Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, pr. 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 in Central Asia; of
pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these
languages.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ural-Altaic \U"ral-Al*ta"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the
Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ural-Altaic
n 1: a (postulated) group of languages including many of the
indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)