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A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. [1] Basque in Europe, Ainu [1] in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America, Tiwi in Australia and Burushaski in Pakistan are all examples of such languages. The exact number of language isolates is ...
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 case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba [1] in West Africa and Vietnamese [2] [3] (especially its colloquial register) in Southeast Asia.
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Classification of the Haida language is a matter of controversy, with some linguists placing it in the Na-Dené language family and others arguing that it is a language isolate. Haida itself is split between Northern and Southern dialects, which differ primarily in phonology.
A typological peculiarity, which is also isolated within Omotic, is the person and gender dependency of the nominative in Bench (either -i˧ or -a˧, depending on the person): a˦tsin˦-a˧ “a woman” (3rd person sg. femininum) [19] nun˧-a˧ "we" (1st person plural exclusive) [20] nas˦i˧ “a man” (3rd person sg. masculine) [20]
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Burushaski (/ ˌ b ʊr ʊ ˈ ʃ æ s k i /; [3] Burushaski: بُرُݸشَسکݵ, romanized: burúśaski, [4] IPA: [bʊˈruːɕʌskiː]) is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. [5] [6] There are also a few hundred speakers of this language in northern Jammu and ...
Washo / ˈ w ɒ ʃ oʊ / [2] (or Washoe; endonym wá꞉šiw ʔítlu) [3] is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California–Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe.