the definition of indigenous language?
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This is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. This language would be from a linguistically distinct community that has been settled in the area for many generations. Indigenous languages may not be national languages, or may have fallen out of use, because of language deaths or linguicide caused by colonization, where the original language is replaced by that of the invading language.\n\nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_language"\n\nLinguicide...interesting. :)
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A native English speaker is someone who grew up speaking English as his or her primary language.
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Cultually--in religion (many natives practice a hybrid of ancient religion and Catholicism), daily lives and chores (food, cooking methods, farming methods, clothing made)\n\nLinguistically--For example, many natives still speak Mayan
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Many. In the first place that makes you a cultured person, not an ignorant like so many people that say that they only need their own language and that everyone else must learn their language. Ignorant, arrogant people that believe that the world spins around them.\nSecond place, gives you access to information that otherwise would be difficult or maybe impossible to obtain.\nThird place, you can communicate with more people than before you learnt the languages and they admire you for that. Otherwise they label you with a very negative characteristic
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This is not true.  In the 19th century, some linguists proposed this as a possibility, but it has since been disproven.\n\nInitially, linguists thought that all world languages fell into four groups: Indo-European, Australo-Asiatic, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan.\n\nPeople had not yet really looked into Native American languages.  When it became clear that there were many languages worldwide that did not fit into the basic scheme of 4, linguists had to rethink everything.\n\nToday, it has become clear that there are hundreds of language families, and the basic four groups have been placed into a larger scheme containing dozens and dozens of "language families."  None of the language families are related to any other language families, so if you think about it, the great differences and high levels of complexity get really mind-boggling.\n\n(Just a note: the previous answers are way off - Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are all are part of the same family: Indo-European.)\n\nWikipedia has a decent website outlining the language families -- if you're interested, you might want to check it out.\n\nHere's an excerpt:\n\nThe largest language families in terms of number of languages are:\n\nNiger-Congo (1514 languages) \nAustronesian (1268 languages) \nTrans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed) \nIndo-European (449 languages) \nSino-Tibetan (403 languages) \nAfro-Asiatic (375 languages) \nNilo-Saharan (204 languages) \nPama-Nyungan (178 languages) \nOto-Manguean (174 languages) (number disputed; Lyle Campbell includes only 27) \nAustro-Asiatic (169 languages) \nSepik-Ramu (100 languages) (validity disputed) \nTai-Kadai (76 languages) \nTupi (76 languages) \nDravidian (73 languages) \nMayan (69 languages)
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Indian is reffered as people from india, Indians are native americans.\nsingular usually means person from india, plural: natives.
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The answer may come as a surprise. Depending on one's definition, estimates range from at least 4,000 languages to 6,000. Either way, this is still quite a large number. One obvious fact is that languages vary greatly in size. We go all the way from English and Spanish with hundreds of millions of speakers around the world - even more if we count all those who use one of these regularly as a second language - down to small languages spoken by a few thousand or a few hundred people. Many go down lower than this: some languages are spoken natively by only a couple dozen or so people, and languages like this soon go down to a single speaker and disappear forever (extinction of languages is the topic of
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There is no single Native American language.  Many tribes, many languages.
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try\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_language
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It depends on the language.  Many universities have courses in various Native American languages.  The University of Oklahoma has perhaps the most course offerings in this area.\n\nMany Native nations offer courses in their ancestral languages as well, especially for the young people of that nation, because so many Native languages are endangered.\n\nOne can also attempt to learn certain languages by using the teaching materials that native speakers and linguists have developed in order to teach such courses.  For example, anyone can purchase the book "Teach Yourself Mohawk," which is available through amazon.com and other retail outlets.\n\nIn my opinion, it's always best to learn from a native speaker, even though some teaching materials (like "Teach Yourself Mohawk") include tapes to help learners with pronunciation.
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language is a tool humans use to communicate.\nlanguages have developed over the years. No scientific rules were used to develop languages.\nGrammar and spellings were introduced later when the need was felt to standardize things.\nYou will find many inconsistencies in every language.
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Yes it is and the official language is Mandarin and the written language is the same no matter what dialect they speak.  The definition of a Nation-State is not based on languages but rather on geographical boundaries.  There are numerous "nations" that have multiple official languages.  Singapore and the Netherlands are just a couple examples.
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"unknown toungues" in general, would be any language you do not understand. To some, spanish is an unknown tongue. \n\nIn specific, what you are talking about is technically known as "idiotic gibberish"
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See http://www.netlingo.com/ for the definitions you want.
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English is the offical language. Other languages are:\n\nHausa\nYoruba\nIgbo (Ibo)\nFulani
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First nations is the term used to define peoples that are descendants of those who where living in modern day countries before European settlers arrived. Sometimes called indigenous people (though it has a different meaning).\nMetis is a french term used in Canadian law to define people of mixed ethnic origin including ancestors of first nations origin.
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"ind" stands for something that is not in my vocabulary