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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("indigenous language" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indigenous language"):
substrate; substratum (an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population)
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