Definition of: Turanian

(t·rā′nē·ən, ty-) adjective
Of or pertaining to a large family of agglutinative languages of Europe and northern Asia, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, specifically known as the Ural-Altaic languages, or any of the people who speak them.
—noun
1. One whose mother tongue is a Ural-Altaic language; a person of Ural-Altaic stock.
2. The Ural-Altaic languages collectively.
3. Theoretically, one of an unknown nomadic people who antedated the Aryans in Europe and Asia. [<Persian Tūrān, a country north of the Oxus River]