Tu|ra|ni|an

Tu|ra|ni|an «tu RAY nee uhn, tyu-», adjective, noun.

–adj.

1. (originally) of, having to do with, or denoting a group or supposed family of languages, including all or nearly all Asian languages that are neither Indo-European nor Semitic.

2. (later) = Ural-Altaic. (Cf. ↑Ural-Altaic)

–n.

1. a member of any one of the peoples that speak Turanian or Ural-Altaic languages.

2. the so-called Turanian languages, collectively.

╂[< Persian Tūrān, a district north of Oxus River, probably < a Turkic word]