• rather than isolating. Some isolating languages include: Classical Chinese Vietnamese Yoruba Khmer language Thai language Central Flores languages Malay trade...
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    A language isolate, or an isolated language, is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu...
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  • Haitian Creole Auxiliary verb Free morpheme Isolating language Zero-marking language Synthetic language Linguistic typology Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2009)...
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    said to contain at least two languages, although language isolateslanguages that are not related to any other language — are occasionally referred to...
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    still displays features of the Middle Khmer language. Khmer is primarily an analytic, isolating language. There are no inflections, conjugations or case...
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  • most analytic languages, isolating languages, consistently have one morpheme per word, while at the other extreme, in polysynthetic languages such as some...
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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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  • trisyllabic roots do occur but they are less common. Yoruba is a highly isolating language. Its basic constituent order is subject–verb–object, as in ó nà Adé...
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    ဗမာဘာသာစကား) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's...
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    Like the other Gbe languages, Fon is an isolating language with a SVO basic word order. In Benin, French is the official language, and Fon and other indigenous...
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    analytic language. The word order is subject–verb–object, although the subject is often omitted. Additionally, Thai is an isolating language lacking any...
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    Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language', written: 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese...
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    have been a monosyllabic, SVO syntax and isolating language, which is also characteristic of Kra–Dai languages. According to him, these common features...
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    linguistic area, in which languages from genetically unrelated families converged toward characteristics such as isolating morphology and similar syllable...
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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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  • synthetic languages to fusional synthetic languages, and then to non-synthetic languages, which in their turn evolve into isolating languages and from...
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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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  • Longest words (category Articles with Basque-language sources (eu))
    popular icon within the Toki Pona community. As a minimalistic isolating constructed language, most words in Toki Pona are much shorter, the median being...
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    other minor language families and isolates. According to the People's Linguistic Survey of India, India has the second highest number of languages (780), after...
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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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    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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    an endangered language isolate that is spoken in west-central India by approximately 2,500 people as of 2016. The name of the language derives from nahal...
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  • Modal verb (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    creole language most of whose vocabulary, but not grammar, is drawn from English. As is generally the case with creole languages, it is an isolating language...
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    tilde, and laryngeal vowels with a macron below. Ticuna is a fairly isolating language morphologically, meaning that most words consist of just one morpheme...
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    Toki Pona (redirect from Tokipona language)
    Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in Sitelen Pona. Toki Pona is an isolating language with only 14 phonemes and an underlying feature of minimalism. It...
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    Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include...
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    called isolating, or analytic, because there is almost a full correspondence between a single word and a single aspect of meaning. Most languages have words...
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    and they may also be affected by the mother language of non-native speakers. Sango is an isolating language with subject–verb–object word order, as in...
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    the verb -gwá "tell" is /-ɡʷá/. Igbo is an isolating language that exhibits very little fusion. The language is predominantly suffixing in a hierarchical...
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    Tai languages Khamti language Tai Lue language Shan language others Chiang Saen languages Northern Thai language Sukhothai language Thai language Southern...
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