List of unclassified languages according to the Ethnologue

The following 73 languages are listed by the Ethnologue (16th edition) as unclassified languages, though in their descriptions some are identified with an established family, or have been retired as spurious. Since the 15th edition, several other unclassified languages were found to be related to known languages once better data was collected, and some, such as Amikoana and Miarrã, were found to be spurious and their ISO codes were retired. Languages which went extinct before 1950 are the purview of Linguist List and are being gradually removed from Ethnologue; these are listed as an addendum to this page.

Africa

13 languages:

• Bung language (Cameroon)
• Gail language (a cant of South Africa)
• Imeraguen language (Mauritania, Hassaniya-Soninke mix?)
• Kara language (Central African Republic, Central Sudanic)
• Kujarge language (Chad, Afroasiatic)
• Laal language (Chad, isolate?)
• Lufu language (Nigeria, Southern Jukunoid)
• Luo language of Atta (Cameroon; not to be confused with the better-known Luo language)
• Mawa language of Bauchi (Nigeria; not to be confused with the Mawa language of Chad)
• Rer Bare language (Ethiopia, unattested)
• Weyto language (Ethiopia, unattested)
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