Language Isolates and Small Families

A language isolate is a language with no demonstrated relationship to any other living or extinct language family, and a growing list of small Eurasian families, Yeniseian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yukaghir, the Andamanese families, the Ainu family and the Basque-related Vasconic languages among them, are similarly unaffiliated with any of the larger phyla covered by this subcategory's other groups. This group holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as an isolate, as a small family with no accepted wider affiliation, or as a discredited or merely hypothetical proposal, such as Borean, Dene-Caucasian or Pontic, that would connect otherwise unrelated families. It is the subcategory's catch-all for genuine linguistic orphans, not a dumping ground for anything merely hard to classify.