21. The entire Indo-European family itself is a language isolate : no further connections are known. 22. Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them. 23. So any category such language isolate , can be abondoned and replaced by a new situtation. 24. The Yele language is a language isolate spoken on Rossel Island in Papua New Guinea. 25. Despite this lack of evidence, Bowern ( 2011 ) classifies it as a language isolate . 26. Thus in a conservative classification, many of the East Papuan languages would be considered language isolates . 27. Is it a language isolate ? talk ) 20 : 50, 14 December 2015 ( UTC) 28. "' Atakapa "'is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. 29. Still, the article Language Isolate needs reliable references. 30. Washo is conservatively considered a language isolate .
