A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa...
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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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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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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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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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France. Basque is classified as a language isolate (unrelated to any other known languages) and the only language isolate in Europe. The Basques are indigenous...
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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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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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preferably Chabu; also called Mikeyir) is an endangered language and likely language isolate spoken by about 400 former hunter-gatherers in southwestern...
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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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isolate Molof isolate Momuna family (2) Samarokena (→ Kwerba) Tofamna isolate Usku isolate Reclassified Wurmian languages Ross removed 95 languages from...
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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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Nahali (redirect from Nahali language)
following languages of central India: Nihali language, or Nahali, a language isolate Kalto language, or Nahali, an Indo-Aryan language Nahari language, an Indo-Aryan...
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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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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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Kusunda or Kusanda (endonym Gemehaq gipan [gemʰjaχ] [gipən] ) is a language isolate spoken by a few among the Kusunda people in western and central Nepal...
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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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recognized family) Nivkh (language isolate) Ainu (language isolate) Uralic (widely recognized family) Yukaghir (language isolate) Paleosiberian (phylogenetic...
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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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are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate. According to Martine Irma Robbeets, Japanese...
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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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possible language isolate. A poorly attested language spoken in the nearby village of Tuluwe, Mpur, may also turn out to be yet another language isolate. Both...
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German, Japanese, and language isolates. Contact sign Intercultural competence Legal recognition of sign languages List of sign languages by number of native...
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Great Andamanese) live in some of the Andaman Islands and speak a language isolate, as do the Kusunda in central Nepal, the Vedda in Sri Lanka, and the...
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or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people...
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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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Kamëntšá is a language isolate and native language of the Kamëntšá people who primarily inhabit the Sibundoy Valley of the Putumayo Department in the south...
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Laal is an endangered language isolate spoken by 749 people (as of 2000[update]) in three villages in the Moyen-Chari prefecture of Chad on opposite banks...
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