Sentence examples for native words from inspiring English sources

"native words" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It usually refers to words in a language that has been spoken in a particular region before the arrival of outsiders or settlers. For example, the native words of the Kawaiisu people of California include words like Chebaldih ("rabbit"), Talyu ("mountain sheep"), and Tahaweya ("coyote").

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I use a few of the native words sometimes.

More recent foreign influences on the language were suppressed and replaced by native words and constructions.

Stress is placed on the first syllable in native words, with sporadic exceptions for compounds.

Perhaps French has been the greatest supplier of words throughout the ages, often displacing native words.

Foreign elements have to be identified and explained as well as replaced, wherever possible, by native words.

Second, we found that the average AoA of non-native languages significantly influences rapid neural memory trace formation for novel native words, later onset predicting larger increase in the response to attended novel native words during the exposure.

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The native word for this kind of place is chiiviteenlii, or "pointed mountains scattered all around".

Some Indian stations sprinkle their schedules with "Native Word of the Day" from Koahnic.

However, the association between average AoA and native word learning was found only in the attend condition.

That is, the later the non-native languages were learnt on average, the more the neural response to novel native word-forms increased (Fig. 3).

No such differences were present either between the ignore and attend conditions for the non-native (z = 0.735, p = 0.463) and native word-forms (z = −0.514, p = 0.607), or between the native and non-native word-forms in the ignore (z = −1.159, p = 0.246) and attend (z = 0.354, p = 0.723) conditions.

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