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A language which appear to have no relatives either in living or preserved records is called a
Answer: D
A language with no known relatives, living or recorded, is a language isolate. Basque in Europe and Burushaski in the Karakoram are standard examples, as each cannot be shown to belong to any known family.
'Anomalous' and 'isolative' are not the technical terms for this status. 'Isolative' is a loose form of 'isolating', which is a type of morphology (languages with little inflection, like Chinese) and not a genetic term. A polysynthetic language is another morphological type with long words made of many morphemes.
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