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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. The exact number of language isolates ...
Corporate language policy is a broad category covering the internal governance and management of language in private organisations. This differs from other definitions, such as official language and working language, as this category considers a broader set of organisational policy and actions directed towards language. [1] [2]
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.
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Language management is a discipline that consists of satisfying the needs of people who speak multiple different languages. These may be in the same country, in companies, and in cultural or international institutions where one must use multiple languages.
Kusunda or Kusanda (endonym Gemehaq gipan Kusunda: ⓘ ⓘ [1]) is a language isolate spoken by a few among the Kusunda people in western and central Nepal.As of 2023, it only has a single fluent speaker, Kamala Khatri Sen, [3] although there are efforts underway to keep the language alive.
Karuk is a language isolate, sharing few if any similarities with other nearby languages. Historically, the American linguist Edward Sapir proposed it be classified as part of the Hokan family , although little evidence supports this proposal. [ 2 ]
The Pueblo linguistic area (or Pueblo Sprachbund, Pueblo convergence area) is a Sprachbund (group of languages with similarities due to language contact) consisting of the languages spoken in and near North American Pueblo locations. There are also many shared cultural practices in this area. For example, these cultures share many ceremonial ...