Sentence examples for the indigenous language from inspiring English sources
In its various forms, standard and dialectal, Dutch is the indigenous language of most of the Netherlands (all but the Frisian-speaking province of Friesland), of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France immediately to the west of Belgium.
Mon-Khmer languages constitute the indigenous language family of mainland Southeast Asia.
Schoolgirls in tan uniforms stroll hand in hand, joking in French and Mina, the indigenous language.
Prey Lang, in the indigenous language, means simply "Our Forest," and it covers twice the area of Greater London.
A long period of relative isolation is believed to account for the distinctiveness of the indigenous language.
That will be a formidable challenge, as most of the adults are illiterate and speak only Tz'utuhil, the indigenous language.
Among the indigenous languages of the Americas, the extensive corpus of surviving literature in Nahuatl dating as far back as the 16th century may be considered unique.
Compulsory elementary education was introduced, and the Bible was translated into the indigenous languages.
When Romance borrowed vocabulary from the substratum, differentiation must have taken place early (certainly before the indigenous languages died out).
Starting in 1970, Bishop Ruiz ordered translations of the Bible and other religious texts in the indigenous languages of Chiapas.
He gave great attention to Mexican antiquities, published in 1857 59 a history of Aztec civilization, and from 1861 to 1864 edited a collection of documents in the indigenous languages.
