INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indigenous language mean? 

• INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("indigenous language" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indigenous language"):

substrate; substratum (an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population)