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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, pr. a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian
     legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom
     sprang the races of mankind.]
     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 in Central Asia; of
     pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these
     languages.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, pr. n.
     One of the Turanians.
     [1913 Webster]

















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