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Language isolate - A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single language.

Tartessian language - The Tartessian language is a pre-Roman extinct language once spoken in southern Spain. It is seemingly unrelated to all other languages, including Indo-European or Iberian language families, and is therefore considered a language isolate.

Proto-World language - The term Proto-World language refers to the hypothetical latest common ancestor of all the world's languages, an ancient language from which all modern languages and language families – and usually including all known dead languages – derive. The concept is thus analogous to the widely accepted Proto-Indo-European language, the ancestor of all the Indo-European languages as reconstructed ...

Kalto language - Kalto or Nahali is a language isolate spoken in west-central India (in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra) by around 5,000 people. The language has many loans from Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Munda languages, but much of its vocabulary cannot be related to other language families.


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Ethnologue Language Family Index: Deaf Sign Language - Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World - The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language, dialect, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.

Language Families - Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.

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Language Sign -   Language Sign Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe by Jane ... of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the process that Stokoe followed to ...

Indo European Language Family -   Indo European Language Family The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert ... history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to ...

Japanese Language Family -   Japanese Language Family Read and Speak Japanese for Beginners by Jane Wightwick, Japanese ... do you face the usual challenges of learning a new language--vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses--but you also have to ...

Indo European Language Family -   Indo European Language Family The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert ... history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to ...

Japanese Language Family -   Japanese Language Family Read and Speak Japanese for Beginners by Jane Wightwick, Japanese ... do you face the usual challenges of learning a new language--vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses--but you also have to ...

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Sign Language -   Sign Language Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe by Jane ... of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the ...

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