Language Isolates

Name the language isolates (languages unrelated to any other known languages) based on their descriptions.

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Group in Northern Spain, known for their historical sailing skills	Basque
From an island country in Asia known for their culture	Japanese
The indigenous peoples of the above island country	Ainu
Known for their barbecue and music	Korean
Known for their distinct cultural traditions in Pakistan and India	Burushaski
Tanzanian language with a lot of clicks	Sandawe
Indigenous language spoken on some islands in Canada and Alaska	Haida
Extinct ancient language that is one of the oldest written ones	Sumerian

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Indigenous group in Brazil that historically had a very distinct culture, but has now all but assimilated	Kanoê
Aboriginal Australian language spoken on some islands off the coast of Darwin	Tiwi
The [extinct] oldest known language from Iran	Elamite
Spoken in Bird's Head Peninsula in West Papua	Maybrat
Language of the Aztec rivals, who live(d) in what is now the state of Michoacán	Purépecha
Spoken in the far-southern Andes and part of the Chilean macro-archipelago. Featured in the video game Sid Meier's Civilization VI	Mapuche
Language famous for being incredibly anomalous to modern linguistics theories, including, but not limited to, not allowing recursive clauses and borrowing all of its pronouns from neighboring languages	Pirahã