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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.
Although the Basque language is geographically surrounded by Romance languages, it is a language isolate that is unrelated to them or to any other language. Most scholars believe Basque to be the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of prehistoric Europe . [ 15 ]
Language isolate This page was last edited on 24 February 2020, at 10:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The ...
Isolate Tennessee (formerly), Oklahoma, United States ... Only a few people remembered the language in 1961 It is not clear if this is a single language. 1961:
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The Basque language (or Euskara, c. 750,000) is a language isolate and the ancestral language of the Basque people who inhabit the Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains mostly in northeastern Spain and partly in southwestern France of about 3 million inhabitants, where it is spoken fluently by about 750,000 and understood ...