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North American Language Isolates and Small Families

This group collects the North American Language Families subcategory's genuine language isolates and small, independent or disputed families that do not fall under one of this subcategory's other, more specific groups: Caddoan of the Great Plains, Chimakuan and Chumashan of the Pacific coast, Wakashan (explicitly, by its own description, a primary family with no demonstrated relationship to any other), Yuki-Wappo of California, Calusa-Tunica of the southeastern United States, Jicaquean and Lencan of Central America, and the Kiowa-Tanoan (Tanoan) family of the American Southwest. It also carries four members that genuinely belong to a family this atlas already groups under a DIFFERENT subcategory rather than repeat that group's name here and corrupt its single in-subcategory edge: three Central American branches of the South American Chibchan family (Isthmic, Talamanca and Votic) and one Trinidad member of the South American Arawakan family (Shebayo), together with the region's Antillean and other French-based and English-based creole languages.

North American Language Isolates and Small Families
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Adai

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Antillean Creole

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Aranama-Tamique

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Atakapa

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Beothuk

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Caddoan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Calusa-Tunica languages

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Cayuse

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Chimakuan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Chitimacha

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Chumashan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Coahuiltecan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Coahuilteco

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Cotoname

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Cuitlatec

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

French-based Creole

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Isthmic languages

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Jicaquean

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Karankawa

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Karuk

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Keres language

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Keresan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Kiowa-Tanoan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Lencan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Naolan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Purepecha

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Shebayo language

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Talamanca languages

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Tanoan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Tanoan-Kiowa languages

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Tiwa language (Americas)

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Tonkawa

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Tunica

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Votic languages

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Wakashan

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Yuki-Wappo

North American Language Isolates and Small Families

Zuni

North American Language Isolates and Small Families
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