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- Language_isolate abstract "A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or \"genetic\") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. Language isolates are in effect language families consisting of a single language. Commonly cited examples include Basque, Korean, Ainu, Sumerian and Burushaski, though in each case a small minority of linguists claim to have demonstrated a relationship with other languages.Some sources use the term \"language isolate\" to indicate a branch of a larger family with only one surviving daughter. For instance, Albanian, Armenian and Greek are commonly called Indo-European isolates. While part of the Indo-European family, they do not belong to any established branch (like the Romance, Indo-Iranian, Slavic or Germanic branches), but instead form independent branches of their own. Similarly, within the Romance languages, Sardinian is a relative isolate. However, without a qualifier, isolate is understood to be in the absolute sense of having no demonstrable genetic relationship to any other known language.Some languages once seen as isolates may be reclassified as small families. This happened with Japanese (now included in the Japonic family along with Ryukyuan languages such as Okinawan) and Georgian (now the most dominant or standard of the Kartvelian languages). The Etruscan language of Italy has long been considered an isolate, but some have proposed that it is related to the so-called Tyrsenian languages, an extinct family of closely related ancient languages proposed by Helmut Rix (1998), which includes the Raetic language of the Alps and the Lemnian language of the Aegean Sea. The Japonic and Kartvelian families are widely accepted by linguists, but since the ancient family that includes Etruscan has not yet received a similar level of acceptance, Etruscan is still included in the list of language isolates.Language isolates may be seen as a special case of unclassified languages that remain unclassified even after extensive efforts. If such efforts eventually do prove fruitful, a language previously considered an isolate may no longer be considered one, as happened with the Yanyuwa language of northern Australia, which has been placed in the Pama–Nyungan family. Since linguists do not always agree on whether a genetic relationship has been demonstrated, it is often disputed whether a language is an isolate or not.".
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Abinomn_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Adamorobe_Sign_Language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Aegean_Sea.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Afroasiatic_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Aikanã_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Ainu_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Ainu_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Albanian_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Alps.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Alsea_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Altaic_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Americas.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Amur_River.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Anatolia.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Anêm_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Aquitanian_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Araucanian_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Arawakan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Arnhem_Land.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Asia.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Australasia.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Ban_Khor_Sign_Language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Bandiagara_Escarpment.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Bangime_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Basque_Country_(greater_region).
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Beothuk_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Betoi_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Bolivia.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Bora–Witoto_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Burushaski.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Busa_language_(Papuan).
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge_University_Press.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Camsá_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Candoshi-Shapra_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Canichana_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_isolates.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Cayuvava_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chibchan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chile.
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chimariko_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chitimacha_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chonan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Chukotko-Kamchatkan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Classification_of_Japonic_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Coahuilteco_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Cofán_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Constructed_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Coosan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Cuitlatec_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Defaka_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Dravidian_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Ecuador.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Ega_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Elam.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Elamite_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Elamo-Dravidian_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Emishi.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Enindhilyagwa_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Esperanto.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Esselen_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Etruscan_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Europe.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Extended_West_Papuan_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Extinct_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Florida.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Gaagudju_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Georgia_(U.S._state).
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- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_languages.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Greek_language.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Guerrero.
- Language_isolate wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_of_Carpentaria.