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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 . [ 13 ] "
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
Pages in category "Isolating languages" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Pages in category "Endangered language isolates" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
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.
Below is a list of South American language families and isolates grouped by geographic region. The inventory of language families and isolates is partly based on Campbell (2012). [8] Each region is higlighted in bold, while language isolates and individual languages are highlighted in italics.