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Language isolates are mysterious and interesting all on their own: languages that seem to have no related languages nor an ancestor language. It’s like they’ve been put on Earth by aliens!
But wait! Meet Warao. The Warao language is spoken by around 20,000 people in the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela, and it is by far one of the world’s most interesting language isolates. The primary reason is that it employs an Object-Subject-Verb word order -- something that less than a dozen languages do! Also, its language isolate status is further questioned when linguist Terrence Kaufman linked it to an another elusive language, one 2,200 kilometers away!
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