A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu and Burushaski in Asia...
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An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme...
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said to contain at least two languages, although language isolates — languages that are not related to any other language — are occasionally referred to...
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other languages and families, as in the case of Basque in Europe, it is considered a language isolate – that is, it is classified as a language family...
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minor language families and isolates.: 283 According to the People's Linguistic Survey of India, India has the second highest number of languages (780)...
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language family branches across Eurasia Area of the Papuan languages Map of the Australian languages Distribution of language families and isolates north...
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2007 Isolate (Gary Numan album), 1992 Isolating language, with near-unity morpheme/word ratio Language isolate, unrelated to any other The product of...
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southwestern France. Basque is classified as a language isolate (unrelated to any other known languages), the only one in Europe. The Basques are indigenous...
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apparently a language isolate. The Jalabe (as descendants of speakers of the language are called) speak the Bwilim dialect of the Dikaka language. It is possible...
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and language isolates, as well as creoles and languages that have yet to be classified. In addition, Africa has a wide variety of sign languages, many...
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a local language isolate that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced...
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Maarten Mous mentions it as a language isolate. Savà and Tosco (2003, 2007), themselves, believe it to be an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substratum—that...
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Hadza is a language isolate spoken along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania by around 1,000 Hadza people, who include in their number the last full-time...
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isolate Molof isolate Momuna family (2) Samarokena (→ Kwerba) Tofamna isolate Usku isolate Reclassified Wurmian languages Ross removed 95 languages from...
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Pictish was a non-Indo-European language isolate, or that a non-Indo-European Pictish and Brittonic Pictish language coexisted. Pictish was replaced by...
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or a language isolate with several dialects. If it is considered a language isolate, it would be the most widely spoken language isolate within the borders...
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non-living relationship with another language is called a language isolate. There are also many unclassified languages whose relationships have not been...
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encompass Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian, Basque, and several other language families and isolates. Fleming calls Borean a "phyletic chain" rather than a super-phylum...
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relationships to each other or to any other languages, plus many language isolates. The majority of the Papuan languages are spoken on the island of New Guinea...
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thought to have no demonstrable relatives and is usually considered a language isolate. The lack of established relatives makes its interpretation difficult...
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Arunachal languages are various languages in Arunachal Pradesh, India traditionally classified as Sino-Tibetan languages, but that may be language isolates and...
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non-Indo-European languages, most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic...
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considered a language isolate. By far the most widely spoken Na-Dene language today is Navajo, also the most spoken indigenous language north of Mexico...
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speak languages with click consonants, which have tentatively been classified within the Khoisan phylum (although Hadza may be a language isolate). The...
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The Ainu languages (/ˈaɪnuː/ EYE-noo), sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken...
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speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is either a language isolate or member of the small Araucanian family related to Huilliche spoken...
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a language isolate; Breton, a Celtic language (spoken by 0.61%); Corsican, an Italo-Dalmatian language; and various other Gallo-Romance languages (Langues...
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Coahuila (Mexico). It is now extinct, and is typically considered to be a language isolate, but has also been proposed to be part of a Pakawan family. Coahuilteco...
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Burushaski (redirect from Burushaki language)
Burushaski: بُرُݸشَسکݵ, romanized: burúśaski, IPA: [bʊˈruːɕʌskiː]) is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in northern...
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Blench, based on a more complete description, consider it to be a language isolate on current evidence. Proposals have sometimes been made to add Mande...
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