Bahasa isolat

Bahasa Isolat adalah bahasa yang tidak memiliki kerabat bahasa lain.

Daftar Bahasa Isolat

Dibawah ini adalah daftar bahasa isolat yang diketahui, bersamaan dengan catatan akan kemungkinan hubungan dengan bahasa lain atau keluarga bahasa lainnya:

Bahasa	Catatan
Bahasa Ainu	Endangered language, spoken in northern Japan.
Basque	No known living relatives, found in the Basque region of France and Spain. Aquitanian is commonly regarded as a direct ancestor of Basque. Some linguists have claimed similarities with various languages of the Caucasus, especially because of its ergative case system, but the resemblances seem superficial. Other linguists have proposed a relation to Iberic.
Birale (Ongota)	Often considered Afroasiatic
Burushaski	Little information available.
Elamite	Extinct language of Elamite Empire; some conjecture a relationship to the Dravidian languages
Etruscan	Language of the ancient Etruscans in northwestern Italy, not well understood at present
Hadza	Often listed as an outlier among the Khoisan languages
Iberic	There are lexical coincidences with Basque, but it is hard to know if they are more than a result of vicinity.
Jalaa
Bahasa Jepang	Possibly related to Korean language, though not yet proven. Connections to the Altaic languages have also been proposed. See Altaic hypothesis for these theories.
Kalto	(also called Nahali) a near-extinct language of western India.
Ket	No known relatives. Some linguists have attempted to show a relationship with Burushaski.
Korean	Possibly related to Japanese language, though not yet proven. Connections to the Altaic languages have also been proposed. See Altaic hypothesis for these theories.
Kwadi	Often listed as an outlier among the Khoisan languages
Laal	Unclassified; sometimes considered Niger-Congo
Mekejir (Shabo)	Often considered Nilo-Saharan
Meroitic	Extinct language of ancient kingdom of Meroe (Kush)
Nivkh	or Gilyak. A Palaeosiberian language spoken in the lower Amur River basin and on the Sakhalin Islands; Ainu is also spoken on Sakhalin.
Oropom	Possibly nonexistent.
Pirahã	Related to languages that have recently become extinct. Only known language with no number terminology; only known language with no grammatical recursion; several other unique features.
Sandawe	Often listed as an outlier among the Khoisan languages
Sumerian	Long-extinct language of ancient Sumeria.
Taiap
Tarascan	Latest research suggests the possibility that it may be related to a family of languages from Ecuador
Ticuna
Yuchi	Connections to Siouan languages have been proposed
Yukaghir	Connections to Uralic Languages have been proposed