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  2. Language isolate - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Polypersonal agreement - Wikipedia

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    Basque is a language isolate with a polypersonal verbal system comprising two sub-types of verbs, synthetic and analytical. The following three cases are cross-referenced on the verb: the absolutive (the case for the subject of intransitive verbs and the direct objects of transitive verbs), the ergative (the case for the subject of transitive verbs), and the dative (the case for the indirect ...

  5. Category:Language isolates - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; Alemannisch; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская ...

  6. VNU University of Languages and International Studies

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    VNU-ULIS was the first institution in Vietnam to offer degrees in Japanese Language Teacher Education. VNU-ULIS is the only institution in Vietnam to have a bachelor program in German language teacher education. [4] The joint ULIS-Southern New Hampshire University (USA) English program constitutes the institution's intensive English studies ...

  7. STARTALK (language program) - Wikipedia

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    STARTALK is a language education program created under the National Security Language Initiative, a federal program which seeks to expand the teaching of strategically important languages in the United States.

  8. Critical Language Scholarship Program - Wikipedia

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    The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a United States Department of State cultural and educational exchange program which offers approximately 500 [clarification needed] undergraduate or graduate level students from the United States the opportunity to participate in an intensive language study abroad.

  9. Language attrition - Wikipedia

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    Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language. For first or native language attrition, this process is generally caused by both isolation from speakers of the first language ("L1") and the acquisition and use of a second language ("L2"), which interferes with the correct production and comprehension of the first.