Paleosiberian

Paleosiberian
/pay'lee oh suy bear"ee euhn/ or, esp. Brit., /pal'ee-/, n.
1. a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
2. Paleo-Asiatic (def. 1).
adj.
3. of or pertaining to Paleosiberian.
[1910-15; PALEO- + SIBERIAN]

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