HyperDic: indigenous_language

English > 1 sense of the expression indigenous language:
NOUNcommunicationindigenous languagea language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere
English > indigenous language: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere.
Narrowersubstrate, substratumAn indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
Broaderlanguage, linguistic communicationA systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

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