indigenous tongue
Ancestral community speech
An indigenous tongue is a language native to a particular region or people, especially one spoken by populations who inhabited an area before colonization or outside settlement.
The phrase often appears in discussions of language preservation and cultural heritage: Many indigenous tongues face extinction as younger generations shift to dominant languages.
- dialectRegional language variety
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
- regional dialectsGeographically distinct speech varieties
- ceremonial speechFormal address for occasions
sacred language · code talkers · phonology · immersion programs · folklore · syntax · vernacular · storytelling · morphology · bilingual education · lexicon · ancestral language · tribal language · minority languages · dying language · living language · heritage language · first language
indigenous tonguecolonial language
Occupier's enforced communication system
foreign language · lingua franca · trade language · pidgin · creole
indigenous tonguecolonial language
Occupier's enforced communication system
dominant language · official language · world language · global language · standard language
indigenous tonguestandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
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