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native language

noun

Etymology

From native + language.

  1. derived from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s✻
  2. derived from dingua
  3. derived from lingua
  4. derived from *linguāticum✻
  5. derived from language
  6. inherited from langage
  7. compounded as native language — “native + language”

Definitions

  1. One's first language, learned in early childhood.

  2. The language of a Native or Aboriginal people.

    • The irony of the Bibles and their translation into Native languages during the same period in which Native children were punished, even beaten, for speaking their language is another point left unexplored in the galleries of the NMAI.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for native language. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA