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Below is a list of known language isolates, arranged by continent, along with notes on possible relations to other languages or language families. The status column indicates the degree of endangerment of the language, according to the definitions of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . [ 14 ] "
Pages in category "Isolating languages" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
This category deals with languages that are isolates, in the sense that they cannot conclusively be shown to be related to any other language in the world. See also: Category:Language families See also: Category:Unclassified languages
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.
A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers. The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state , which might at times amount to outright political oppression.
List of ISO 639-3 codes – three-letter codes, intended to "cover all known natural languages" List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.