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Answer: An isolated language is a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. The best example in Europe is Basque, apparently the only language currently spoken in Europe that survives from the period before the arrival of Indo-European speakers. Basque may have once been spoken over a wider area but was abandoned where its speakers came in contact with Indo-European languages.
Another example of an isolated language is Japanese which is unrelated to other language families. Today, Japanese is written primarily with Chinese characters.
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