Sentence examples for linguistic isolate from inspiring English sources

Krauss studied languages at Harvard and then set up the linguistics department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks… Eyak is neither a linguistic isolate, like Basque, nor a part of any language community.

Burushaski is a linguistic isolate, a language whose genetic relationship to other languages is not yet clear.

Some scholars classified the language as part of the Hokan stock (Dixon & Kroeber, 1919; Harrington, 1917; Sapir, 1917, 1921), while others consider it a linguistic isolate (Campbell & Mithun, 1979).

However, their languages show sufficient divergence from the main Muskogean languages and from each other to warrant semi-independent status as linguistic isolates.

The region was also home to several linguistic isolates, or languages that have only tenuous connections to a major language family (see also North American Indian languages).

Studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have suggested substantial genetic homogeneity of European populations [20], with only a few geographic or linguistic isolates appearing to be genetic isolates as well [21].

However, apart from a number of linguistic isolates, there are two other major families – Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic (AA).

To further analyze these results, a second PCA was performed removing the East non-NC (Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and linguistic isolates) populations.

The pairwise FST population tree shows a separation of the main groups present in our data set, first with a group of Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and linguistic isolates, then the Khoisan speakers (except the Khwe, a highly admixed population as can be seen in fig. 4 a) and the NC-speaking populations (fig. 5), with the RHG located between the last two.

The linguistically isolated Romansh culture in Graubünden in eastern Switzerland constitutes an exception, it survives only in the upper valleys of the Rhine and the Inn and strives to maintain its rare linguistic tradition.

Farther south, in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia, and Sicily, isolated linguistic communities persist against the odds.