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Native and speakers
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.
Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d ' Ivoire etc.
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.
# REDIRECT Native Esperanto speakers
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.

Native and given
The establishment of Native American governments ( which are separate and distinct from state and federal government ) exercising limited powers of sovereignty, has given rise to the concept of " bi-federalism.
The Nez Perce, as many western Native American tribes, were migratory and would travel with the seasons, according to where the most abundant food was to be found at a given time of year.
The nickname was given to the " Black Cavalry " by the Native American tribes they fought.
Surviving Native Americans have been resettled onto separate tracts of land ( reservations ), which have been given a certain degree of autonomy within the United States federal government.
Repair efforts were completed in 1893 and the fort was given by the Native Sons of the Golden West to the State of California.
He notes that text books with a painting of a handsome Native American ( such as the one one by Benjamin West on this page ) are even given to school children with the cautionary caption, " A painting of a Noble Savage ".
Socorro was originally the name given to a Native American village ( see: Puebloan peoples ) by Don Juan de Oñate in 1598.
According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American.
The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
While the latter ruling was famously defied by Jackson, the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Native American nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U. S. court.
According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American.
Allegheny County was the first in Pennsylvania to be given a Native American name, being named after the Allegheny River.
The small plot of land was given to the early French settlers by the Potawatomi Native Americans, and the area was claimed for New France.
The second group, led by Deacon Samuel Sherman, had been given approval by the general court to purchase land from local Native Americans in order establish a new settlement.
Later, a Native American named Tonto stumbles on the scene and recognizes the lone survivor, Ranger Reid ( whose first name was never given ), as the man who had saved his life some time in the past.
Early in the spring of 1861, Mathews was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army and given orders to organize a company of soldiers from among sympathetic Native Americans, specifically, the Quapaw.
Before its incorporation, the town site was referred to informally as Possum Town, a name which was given by the local Native Americans.
In fact, Manteo was christened and given the name Lord of Roanoke, making him the first Native American to receive a title of nobility.
He was promoted from his previous rank of colonel to major-general, and given command of a newly formed division: the Caucasian Native Cavalry, which became known as the " Savage Division ".
In 1901 Zitkala-Ša was dismissed, likely for an article she had published in Harper's Monthly describing the profound loss of identity felt by a Native American boy after being given an assimilationist education at the school.
Pickens was well regarded by Native Americans that he dealt with and was given the name Skyagunsta, " The Wizard Owl.
# The concept of bisexuality may not exist in a given culture or may be encompassed by transgender identities as in some indigenous cultures such as those of Native Americans, Aboriginal peoples in Canada or the Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico.
A significant proportion of these soldiers were of African American ancestry and came to be known as the " buffalo soldiers ," a name apparently given to them by the Native Americans of the region.
In several books Native American tribes and their various analogues are given a chance to be more successful than they were in actual American history.

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