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"Altaic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Numerals, by the Rev. Isaac Taylor. He stated that the long-sought key to the Etruscan language had at last been discovered. Two dice had been found in a tomb, with their six faces marked with words instead of pips. He showed that these words were identical with the first six digits in the Altaic branch of the Turanian family of speech. Guided by this clew, it was easy to prove that the grammar and vocabulary of the 3000 Etruscan inscriptions were also Altaic. The words denoting kindred, the pronouns, the ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... Caucasus between the XX and XV century B.C. by a dolichocephalic population of Mongolo-Semitic or Semito-Kushite and not of Iranian origin. It was transformed toward the VII century by the invasion of a brachycephalic Scythian people of Ural-Altaic origin." Page 147 ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various |
Words linked to "Altaic" : Korean, Asiatic, Turki, Turko-Tatar, Turkic language, Tungusic, Turkic, Mongolian, Ural-Altaic, Mongolic, Mongolic language, Japanese |
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