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. Commonly cited examples include
Basque,
Ainu,
Burushaski, and
Korean, though in each case a minority of linguists claim to have demonstrated a relationship with another language (see
Dene-Caucasian,
Karasuk, and
Altaic, for example).
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