Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are " both unaware of and even shocked by " the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes.

Native Hindi speakers pronounce / व / as in vrat (' व ् रत ', fast ) but in pakwan (' पकव ा न ', food dish ), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophone distinctions they are subconsciously making, though these are apparent to native English speakers.

Native speakers are concentrated in a contiguous area including parts of the Spanish Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country and Navarre and in the western half of the French Département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Of all the Alaska Native languages, Central Alaskan Yup ' ik has the most speakers, with about 10, 000 of a total Yup ' ik population of 21, 000 still speaking the language.

Perhaps nothing better represents this hybrid background than Mexico's languages: the country is both the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world and home to the largest number of Native American language speakers on the continent.

Native speakers who are not academic linguists may not recognize that the variants they speak are classified in linguistics as members of " Mandarin " ( or so-called " Northern dialects ") in a broader sense.

Native Esperanto speakers ( in Esperanto denaskuloj or denaskaj esperantistoj ) are born into families in which Esperanto is spoken ( usually along with other languages ).

simple: Native Esperanto speakers

The American linguist William Dwight Whitney, for example, actively strove to eradicate the Native American languages arguing that their speakers were savages and would be better off abandoning their languages and learning English and adopting a civilized way of life.

Instead of merely assuming that language influences the thought and behavior of its speakers ( after Humboldt and Sapir ) he looked at Native American languages and attempted to account for the ways in which differences in grammatical systems and language use affected the way their speakers perceived the world.

Native English speakers ( white, Indian and Coloured or Cape Coloured ) in South Africa have an accent that generally resembles British Received Pronunciation ( modified with varying degrees of Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans ).

* 1948: The organization " Native Esperanto speakers " became part of TJO.

Native speakers of it are mainly found in the Sole Valley and are estimated at up to 15, 000.

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Native speakers of these two languages can understand one another without great difficulty.

He provided an example of this in his 1889 article, " On Alternating Sounds " A number of linguists at Boas ' time had observed that speakers of some Native American languages pronounced the same word with different sounds indiscriminately.

Native speakers sometimes refer to their vernacular as braid Scots ( or " broad Scots " in English ) or use a dialect name such as the " Doric ", " Teri " or the " Buchan Claik ".

Native English speakers benefit by learning a second language.

Native Gaelic speakers who belong to the area always refer to the village as A ' Charnaich, meaning " the place of cairns ".

Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the U. S .- Mexico border, with 170, 717 self-reported speakers in 2007, and this number has increased with time.

The American Community Survey of 2007 reported 170, 717 speakers of Navajo, making it the only Native American language to warrant a separate line in the statistical tables.

While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.

That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.

* Buffalo jump, a cliff used historically by Native American people to kill American bison

* Buffalo pound, an enclosure used historically by Native American people to catch and kill American bison

* Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho

The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

# Native species plantation – Intensively managed forests with > 30 % canopy cover, which have been planted by people with species that occur naturally in that country.

# Native species plantation – Intensively managed forests with > 30 % canopy cover, which have been planted by people with species that occur naturally in that country.

Category: American people of Native American descent

In Native American mythology, it is said that the ancestors of the Mandan people in ancient times emerged from a subterranean land through a cave at the north side of the Missouri River.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”

Native people made many types of boat for different purposes.

These people are not the Native American equivalent of the Chinese " barefoot doctors ", herbalists, nor of the emergency medical technicians who ride rescue vehicles.

The term " medicine people " is commonly used in Native American communities, for example, when Arwen Nuttall ( Cherokee ) of the National Museum of the American Indian writes, " The knowledge possessed by medicine people is privileged, and it often remains in particular families.

Native Americans tend to be quite reluctant to discuss issues about medicine or medicine people with non-Indians.

The Nez Perce () ( autonym: Niimíipu ) are Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region ( Columbia River Plateau ) of the United States.

Self-reporting opens the door to " box checking " by people who despite not having a substantial relationship to Native American culture innocently or fraudulently " check the box " for Native American.