URALIAN LANGUAGES
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

Against the Palaeoasiatic zone, which follows the Pacific littoral, two genetic stocks abut in broad, horizontal bands, viz. the Uralian, stretching across tundra and taiga from the Baltic Sea to Yakutia, and the Altaic, stretching across steppe and sand from the Crimea to the relatively recent Tungus (Lamut) lands of the Sea of Okhotsk.