Language Isolates

Some articles on language isolates, languages, language:

Sign Language Isolates
... There is direct evidence that a large number of sign languages have arisen independently, without any ancestral language, and thus are true language isolates ... The most famous of these is the Nicaraguan Sign Language, a well documented case of what has happened in schools for the deaf in many countries ... In Tanzania, for example, there are seven schools for the deaf, and seven sign languages, none with any known connection to anything else in the world ...
Papuan Languages - Ross's Classification - Language Isolates
... north Irian Abinomn language (Baso, Foia) Isirawa language (Donahue links it to Kwerba) Sandaun Province Karkar language (Yuri) – since shown to be a Pauwasi language Busa language ...
Language Family - Other Classifications of Languages - Isolate
... Most of the world's languages are known to belong to language families ... only tentatively proposed) are called language isolates, which can be thought of as minimal language families ... In general, it is assumed that most language isolates have relatives, but at a time depth too great for linguistic comparison to recover them ...

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