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| [[Ainu language|Ainu]]

|2<ref>{{e25|Hokkaido Ainu}}</ref>

| data-sort-value=4 rowspan="2" | Moribund

|[[Japan]]

| Spoken on the island of [[Hokkaido]] in [[Japan]]. Sometimes hypothesized to be related to [[Korean language|Korean]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]],<ref name=grenberg2000>Joseph Greenberg (2000–2002): ''Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family'', 2 volumes. Stanford University Press.</ref> while at other times proposed to be a branch of [[Altaic languages|Altaic]].<ref name=patrie78>James Tyrone Patrie (1978): ''The genetic relationship of the Ainu language''. PhD thesis, University of Hawaii.</ref><ref name=patrie82>James Tyrone Patrie (1982): ''The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language.'' University of Hawaii Press. {{ISBN|0-8248-0724-3}}</ref>

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|[[Akajeru dialect|Akajeru]]

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|[[India]]

|Language isolate as of 2020 after the last speaker of [[Akachari dialect|Akachari]] died of tuberculosis, the last of the [[Great Andamanese languages]].

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|[[Bugun language|Bugun]]