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Examples include Japanese and Georgian: Japanese is now part of the Japonic language family with the Ryukyuan languages, and Georgian is the main language in the Kartvelian language family. There is a difference between language isolates and unclassified languages , but they can be difficult to differentiate when it comes to classifying extinct ...
Looking at families rather than individual languages, he found a rate of 30% of families/protolanguages in North America, all on the western flank, compared to 5% in South America and 7% of non-American languages – though the percentage in North America, and especially the even higher number in the Pacific Northwest, drops considerably if ...
Once a trade pidgin and the most far-reaching sign language in North America, Plains Sign Talk or Plains Sign Language is now critically endangered with an unknown number of speakers. Navajo Sign Language has been found to be in use in one clan of Navajo ; however, whether it is a dialect of Plains Sign Talk or a separate language remains unknown.
Pages in category "Language isolates of North America" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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
A statistical study of argument marking features in languages of South America found that both the Andes and Western South America constitute linguistic areas, with some traits showing a statistically significant relationship to both areas. The unique and shared traits of the two areas are shown in the following table. [17] (The wordings of the ...
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Macro-Carib, an almost entirely South American family including the Carib languages, the Macro-Je languages and the Jirajara languages, albeit including some Caribbean languages. Macro-Arawak, a family primarily confined to South America and its component families included the Arawakan languages and the Tupian languages .