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  2. Language isolate - Wikipedia

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    One example is the Ket language spoken in central Siberia, which belongs to the wider Yeniseian language family; had it been discovered in recent times independently from its now extinct relatives, such as Yugh and Kott, it would have been classified as an isolate. Another explanation for language isolates is that they arose independently in ...

  3. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    Family Languages [1] Current speakers [2] Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic: 381 499,294,669 ... Language isolate#List of language isolates by continent;

  4. Language family - Wikipedia

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    A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Albanian and Armenian within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but the meaning of the word "isolate" in such cases is usually clarified with a modifier. For instance, Albanian and Armenian may be referred to as an "Indo-European isolate".

  5. Category:Language isolates - Wikipedia

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    This category deals with languages that are isolates, ... Language isolate This page was last edited on 24 February 2020, at 10:53 (UTC). ...

  6. Ainu languages - Wikipedia

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    The Ainu languages (/ ˈ aɪ n uː / EYE-noo), [1] sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including previously southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula.

  7. Ainu language - Wikipedia

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    It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no academic consensus of origin. It is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

  8. Isolating language - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Category:Isolating languages - Wikipedia

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