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A language isolate, sometimes called an isolated language, is a language that has no demonstrable genealogical relationship with any other language. That is, an isolate is a family of one. Basque in Europe, Ainu (if counted as a single language) and Burushaski in Asia, Sandawe and Hadza in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê and Trumai in South America, Tiwi and possibly Porome in Oceania are examples of language isolates. The exact number of language isolates is unknown due to insufficient data on several languages; that is, there is a fuzzy boundary between language isolates and unclassified languages. Researchers may have differing criteria on how much comparative work needs to be done before concluding that a language is an isolate.

Language isolate - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with other languages Not to be confused with Isolating language . Locations of a few examples of language isolates A language isolate , sometimes called an isolated language , is a language that has no demonstrable genealogical relationship with any other language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] That is, an isolate is a language family that only contains one member. Basque in Europe, Ainu (if counted as a single language) and Burushaski in Asia, Sandawe and Had

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