any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
of or pertaining to or written in Altaic
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 Japanese and Korean languages.