Ural-Altaic language
Uralo-Altaic language
Uraltaic language

The word "kurultaj" and its variations in the Ural-Altaic languages translates as "meeting of the tribes".

In the long run, his theory proved unsound, but his Northern Division was renamed and re-classed as the Ural-Altaic languages.

As in several other cases of this sort (see Ural-Altaic languages), that Uralic and Yukaghir are related has been argued for in some detail, but how they are related remains uncertain.

For example, it has been suggested that the Turanian or Ural-Altaic language group, which relates Sami and other languages to the Mongolian language, was used to justify racism towards the Sami in particular.

Although many circumpolar indigenous people speak either an Inuit dialect, a variety of Saami or a Ural-Altaic language, English is likely to be the second or third language that many of them will have in common.

Furthermore, much of early research on Ural-Altaic languages was coloured by attempts at justifying the view that European peoples east of Sweden were Asian and thus of inferior race, justifying colonialism, eugenics and racial hygiene.

In particular, such a conclusion formerly led linguists to propose the so-called Ural-Altaic language family, which would (in the largest scope ever proposed) include the Uralic and Turkic languages as well as Mongolian, Korean and Japanese.

Most scholars agree that the Tuoba were proto-Mongols or belonged to their own branch of Ural-Altaic language family, although some also suggest that instead of being related to the Mongols, they were perhaps related to the Turkic peoples.

Recherches sur le vocabulaire des langues ouralo-altaïques ('Research on the Vocabulary of the Uralo-Altaic Languages').