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Turanian [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.

Turanian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Turanians.

Turanian Encyclopedia Britannica

TURANIAN. This word means etymologically no more than “not Iranian,” and in this sense the word Turan was used by Sasanian monarchs to cover those parts of their realm that did not belong to Iran. The application of the word to denote the Ural-Altaic family of languages is extremely unfortunate and seems to be falling out of use. See Philology, vol. xviii. p. 779.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 625
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Turanians [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians.

2. A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.