Findings suggest that school policies designed to support language development created boundaries that isolated language learners from mainstream and bilingual peers and had profound repercussions for access to opportunities to use and learn academic English.
It gets lost in translation whereas the sound is forgotten as an isolated language articulating what English vernacular fails.
The Sumerians, who spoke an isolated language not correlated to any linguistic family, are the most ancient group living in the region for which we have historical evidence.
Nouns from isolating languages like Chinese should not change in the plural, as in "two sampan" or "a bowl of lychee".
All higher speech forms are brought forth from simpler ones, synthetic languages are brought forth by isolating languages, flexional (fusional) languages are brought forth by synthetic ones.
Unexpectedly, the same conceptual space can also account for a different (albeit related) phenomenon, i.e., the regularity in "transitivity prominence" in some isolating languages of the SVO type like Chinese, Vietnamese, and Hmong.
At present, there are also dozens of language isolates: languages that cannot be shown to be related to any other languages in the world.
Classical Chinese is an isolating language, meaning that each graph stands alone at all times, in isolation, without affixes of any kind, and unmarked for case, number, gender, or tense.
There was the isolating language barrier and financial hardship.
But the two languages are fundamentally different in structure: whereas Chinese words are monosyllables, Japanese words often consist of several syllables, and, whereas Chinese is an isolating language, Japanese is an inflected language.
Roughly speaking, an isolating language is one in which all the words are morphologically unanalyzable (i.e., in which each word is composed of a single morph); Chinese and, even more strikingly, Vietnamese are highly isolating.
