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Unclassified languages are languages whose genetic affiliation has not been established, mostly due to lack of reliable data. The question of the genetic affiliation of languages belongs to the domain of historical linguistics. If this state of affairs continues even after intense study of the language and efforts to connect it to other languages, it is termed a language isolate. Languages can be considered unclassified for a variety of reasons, including:

Absence of data, e.g.: Paucity of data, e.g.: Not closely related to its neighbors, and not commonly examined due to paucity of data, e.g.: Not closely related to any other language, and academic consensus on its more distant relations not yet established, e.g.: Also, languages whose very existence is dubious fall into this category by default, e.g.:

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Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics) is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:
  • to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages;

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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.
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The Weyto language is believed to be an extinct language formerly spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic.
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Ethiopia (IPA: /i.θi.oʊ.pi.ə/) ( ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially the
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The Sentinelese language is the language of the Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands, India. Virtually nothing is known of the language, and no word lists or language samples have been collected by researchers.
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250 (median estimate)
2001 Census: 39 (official, but incomplete, count)
Regions with significant populations exclusively on North Sentinel Island (India)
Languages Sentinelese language, unclassified, but generally held to be one of the Andamanese languages Religions
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The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory.
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The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum. It is reported to have been close to Lufu and Bibi.
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The Bété languages are spoken in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire. There are many dialects but they can be grouped as follows
  • Western
  • Bété of Gagnoa
  • Kouya

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The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has
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Motto
"Paix - Travail - Patrie"   (French)
"Peace - Work - Fatherland"
Anthem
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The Kujargé language is spoken in seven villages in Chad near Jebel Mirra () and in Sudan in villages scattered along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum. It is estimated to have about 1000 speakers (as of 1983).
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The Lufu language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language still spoken by some elders among the 2,000-3,000 Lufu in Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun. It is reported to have been close to Bete and Bibi.
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Motto
"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
Anthem
"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"


Capital Abuja

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Main article: Luo
The Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic
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Motto
"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
Anthem
"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"


Capital Abuja

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Motto
"Unité, Travail, Progrès"   (French)
"Unity, Work, Progress"
Anthem
"La Tchadienne"
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The Bangi-me language is spoken by 2000-3000 people who call themselves the Banga-na, in northern Mali among the Dogon. It shows no clear affinities with neighboring languages, and may be a language isolate, but pending further investigation it remains unclassified.
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Motto
"Un peuple, un but, une foi"
"One people, one goal, one faith"
Anthem
Pour l'Afrique et pour toi, Mali
"For Africa and for you, Mali"
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Jalaa (autonym bàsàrə̀n dà jàlààbè̩) is an endangered language of northeastern Nigeria (Loojaa settlement in Balanga Local Government Area, Bauchi State), of uncertain (possibly Niger-Congo) origins.
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Motto
"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
Anthem
"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"


Capital Abuja

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Mpre is a language spoken or once spoken in the village of Butie () in Ghana, near the confluence of the Black and White Voltas. It is known only from a 70-word list given in a 1931 article.
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Oropom (or Oworopom, Oyoropom, Oropoi) is an almost certainly extinct African language, once spoken in northeastern Uganda and northwestern Kenya between the Turkwel River, Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon, by the Oropom ethnic group.
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Motto
"For God and My Country"
Anthem
Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty


Capital Kampala

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Laal is a still-unclassified language spoken by 749 people (as of 2000) in three villages in the Moyen-Chari prefecture of Chad on opposite banks of the Chari River, called Gori (lá), Damtar (ɓual), and Mailao.
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Motto
"Unité, Travail, Progrès"   (French)
"Unity, Work, Progress"
Anthem
"La Tchadienne"
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Ongota (also known as Birale/Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia. In 2000, it was said to be in a state of decline with only 8 elderly native speakers, the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weyt'o River having adopted the
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Ethiopia (IPA: /i.θi.oʊ.pi.ə/) ( ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially the
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