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indigenous language

DEFINITIONS OF: indigenous language

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n a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere

Types:
substrate, substratum
an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
Type of:
language, linguistic communication
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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