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A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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.
Languages with a higher tendency toward isolation generally exhibit a morpheme-per-word ratio close to 1:1. In an ideal isolating language, visible morphology would be entirely absent, as words would lack any internal structure in terms of smaller, meaningful units called morphemes. Such a language would not use bound morphemes like affixes.
A language isolate is classified based on the fact that enough is known about the isolate to compare it genetically to other languages but no common ancestry or relationship is found with any other known language. [20] A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Albanian and Armenian within Indo-European, is often also called ...
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".
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская ...
An example is the Etruscan language, which, even though only partially understood, is believed to be related to the Rhaetic language and to the Lemnian language. A single family may be an isolate. In the case of the non-Austronesian indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea and the indigenous languages of Australia, there is no published ...
[1] [2] Thus language isolates such as Basque are necessarily autonomous. [2] Where several closely related varieties are found together, a standard language is autonomous because it has its own orthography, dictionaries, grammar books and literature. [2]
Isolating language, a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio; Isolation (microbiology), techniques to separate microbes from a sample containing mixtures of microbes; Reproductive isolation, in population genetics, prevents members of two different species from producing offspring if they cross or mate