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What is the most isolated language?
A language isolate is a language that has no traceable historical relationships to any other language. The world’s most common language isolate by a long way is Korean, spoken by an estimated 78 million people.
Which language belongs to its own language family with nothing else like it?
An “Isolate Language” is a human language with no detectable relationship (metaphorically “genetic”) with any other language. French, Spanish and Italian are all very similar, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are less obviously related to anything.
Is Japanese an isolate language?
Since Japanese cannot be easily proven to belong to any language family, most scholars consider it a language isolate. The only languages that Japanese is related to are the languages spoken in Ryukyu islands lying South–Southwest of Japan, but the linguistic affiliation of the Ryukyuan languages is not known either.
Is Japanese an isolated language?
What language are all languages derived from?
The Proto-Indo-European language is the hypothesised mother language of all languages within the Indo-European family. This language is thought to have been spoken around 3500 BC by nomads living in what is present-day Ukraine.
What languages are not related to any other language?
Unclassified languages are different from language isolates in that they have no demonstrable genetic relationships to other languages due to a lack of sufficient data.
Why is Latin not the origin of most languages?
Latin is far from being the origin of most languages, but forms the basis of the Romantic languages of Europe. English borrowed some Latin during the Roman occupation, but Latin was in no way involved with all the languages in, for example, the Philippines or Africa.
What is the classification of the Bantu languages?
There is no true genealogical classification of the (Narrow) Bantu languages. Until recently most attempted classifications only considered languages that happen to fall within traditional Narrow Bantu, but there seems to be a continuum with the related languages of South Bantoid.
What language family does Latin belong to?
Latin is part of the Indo-European family of languages which came from an unknown common root language; Proto Indo-European. Sanskrit, Latin, Celtic and Germanic languages are (among others)said to belong to the Indo-European family. Japanese however is not part of a large family of languages.
Most European languages are related, having originally derived from ancient Indian languages.