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Languages which became extinct before 1950 are the purview of Linguist List and are being gradually removed from Ethnologue; they are listed as an addendum to this page. There are 48 unclassified languages in the 25th edition of Ethnologue published in 2022.
An unclassified language is a language whose genetic affiliation to other languages has not been established. Languages can be unclassified for a variety of reasons, mostly due to a lack of reliable data [1] but sometimes due to the confounding influence of language contact, if different layers of its vocabulary or morphology point in different directions and it is not clear which represents ...
Unclassified languages of the Americas (3 C) Unclassified languages of Asia (2 C, 27 P) D. Unclassified Dravidian languages (4 P) E. Endangered unclassified languages ...
A number of languages of North America are too poorly attested to classify. These include Adai, Beothuk, Calusa, Cayuse, Karankawa, and Solano. There are other languages which are scarcely attested at all.
The following purported languages of South America are listed as unclassified in Campbell (2012), Loukotka (1968), Ethnologue, and Glottolog. Nearly all are extinct. Nearly all are extinct. It is likely that many of them were not actually distinct languages, only an ethnic or regional name.
Unclassified languages of South America (2 C, 42 P) This page was last edited on 20 October 2024, at 05:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There is a difference between language isolates and unclassified languages, but they can be difficult to differentiate when it comes to classifying extinct languages. [1] If such efforts eventually do prove fruitful, a language previously considered an isolate may no longer be considered one, as happened with the Yanyuwa language of northern ...
In addition, the languages of Africa include several unclassified languages and sign languages. The earliest Afroasiatic languages are associated with the Capsian culture , the Saharan languages are linked with the Khartoum Mesolithic/Neolithic cultures.