#language family

• Altaic — Pertaining to the Altai Mountains, their surrounding regions, or the indigenous populations of this zone in Central Asia. In linguistics, it describes a hypothetical macro-family of languages (Altaic languages) that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic subfamilies, structurally characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony.
• Anti-Semitic — A neologistic adjective form calqued from the English 'anti-Semitic', sometimes used as a variant for the term 'antisemit'; demonstrating hostility or prejudices of an anti-Semitic nature. In a strict linguistic sense, it can rarely refer to opposition toward the expansion or influence of languages from the Semitic family, but in current media usage, it functions as a modern synonym for Judeophobic.
• Austronesian — Belonging to Austronesia, its inhabitants, or the languages spoken in this vast island region spanning Madagascar, the Malay Archipelago, the Pacific islands, and Taiwan; relating to a major family of structurally and historically related languages. As a noun, it represents a woman belonging to the native populations of these maritime territories.