Indo-Uralic
- Indo-Uralic
- 1. adjectiveOf or relating to both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages; especially, of or pertaining to a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.
Perhaps the most widely accepted proposal is of an Indo-Uralic family, encompassing PIE and Proto-Uralic.
2. nounThe Indo-Uralic languages: a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.Other proposals, further back in time (and correspondingly less accepted), model PIE as a branch of Indo-Uralic with a Caucasian substratum;
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