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Which indigenous language family, spoken in the highlands of Michoacan, is a linguistic isolate with no known relatives among other indigenous languages of the Americas?

Answer: Purepecha — Purepecha (also called Tarascan) has no known genealogical relationship to any other language family, making it one of the great puzzles of Mesoamerican linguistics.

Purepecha (also called Tarascan) has no known genealogical relationship to any other language family, making it one of the great puzzles of Mesoamerican linguistics.

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