For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

As a result, these terms are virtually indistinguishable from native Chinese words: indeed, there is some dispute over some of these terms as to whether the Japanese or Chinese coined them first.

Almost the entire Egyptian population rejected the terms of the Council of Chalcedon and remained faithful to the native Egyptian Church ( now known as the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

Use of masculine and feminine gender nouns and sentence structure are usually omitted or interchanged, and many native Hausa nouns and verbs are substituted for non-native terms from local languages.

SIL in a 2005 estimate counts a total of 308 varieties, the largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu, ca.

Others terms used to identify Chinese characters include Sinogram, emphasizing the Chinese origin of the characters, and Han character, a literal translation of the native term.

When these officials had completed their terms in the capital and returned to their native provinces, most of the chefs they brought along often remained in Beijing.

In linguistic terms, natural language only applies to a language that has developed naturally, and the study of natural language primarily involves native ( first language ) speakers.

They are second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of native speakers.

In most cases these treaties were in extremely disadvantageous terms to the native people, who often did not appreciate the implications of what they were signing.

The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt.

It was written in Latin, although there were some vernacular words inserted for native terms with no previous Latin equivalent, and the text was highly abbreviated.

However, the meaning of these terms is reasonably well-defined only in second language acquisition or language replacement events, when the native speakers of a certain source language ( the substrate ) are somehow compelled to abandon it for another target language ( the superstrate ).

The Old English cognate terms wælcyrge and wælcyrie appear in several Old English manuscripts, and scholars have explored whether the terms appear in Old English by way of Norse influence, or reflect a tradition also native among the Anglo-Saxon pagans.

In ethno-cultural terms, the population of Edremit is a mixture of Balkan Turks, descendants of immigrants from Aegean Islands, some Circassians, as well as native Tahtacı Turkmens, who pursue their own traditions and life-style to this day.

In terms of religion, the Roman pantheon was adopted although a native sungod, Belenus, had a large following.

The largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani ( Hindi-Urdu ) ( about 240 million ), Bengali ( about 230 million ), Punjabi ( about 90 million ), Marathi ( about 70 million ), Gujarati ( about 45 million ), Oriya ( about 30 million ), Sindhi ( about 20 million ), Saraiki ( about 18 million ), Nepali ( about 14 million ), Chittagonian ( about 14 million ), Sinhala ( about 16 million ), and Assamese ( about 13 million ) with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

American Chinese cuisine often uses ingredients not native and very rarely used in China.

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.

* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.

* Beijing beef – This dish exists in native Chinese form, but using gai-lan ( Chinese broccoli ) rather than American broccoli.

Zhejiang cuisine ( Chinese: 浙菜 or 浙江菜, Zhèjiāngcài ), one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of China, derives from the native cooking styles of the Zhejiang region.

Chiang's body was not buried in the traditional Chinese manner but entombed in his former residence in Cihu Mausoleum | Cihu in respect for his wish to be buried in his native Fenghua.

In English, the words Daoism and Taoism ( or ) are the subject of an ongoing controversy over the preferred romanization for naming this native Chinese philosophy and Chinese religion.

This pronunciation cannot be correctly reproduced by most native English speakers who are unfamiliar with Chinese.

In loanword terminology, English Taoism / Daoism is a " calque ", " loan-rendering ", or " hybrid " that blends a borrowed word with a native element, for example, chopstick ) blends Chinese Pidgin English chop (< Cantonese kàp, pinyin kuài 快 " fast ; quick ") with English stick.

The Tao Te Ching is written in Classical Chinese, which can be difficult to understand completely, even for well-educated native speakers of modern Chinese.

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

The Kara-Khitan Khanate ( Traditional Chinese: 西遼 ; Simplified Chinese: 西辽 ; pinyin: Xī Liáo, 1124 – 1218 ), also known as Western Liao, was established by Yelü Dashi ( 耶律大石 ) who led around 100, 000 Khitan remnants after escaping the Jurchen conquest of their native country, the Khitan dynasty.

" Future together ", as the name implies, is opposed to a racial vision of New Caledonian society, which divides into opposing camps Melanesians native inhabitants and European settlers, and is in favor of a multicultural New Caledonia, better reflecting the existence of large populations of Polynesians, Indonesians, Chinese, and other immigrants.

Because of the cultural influence of China, China's neighbors adopted these titles or had their native titles conform in hanzi.

On top of this there are many non-European clowning traditions ( including clown-like figures in Japanese Kabuki theatre ), North American native shaman traditions to consider which may or may not have influenced what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.

The history of Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas.

When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.

Her compositions blend the timbres of World Music with her native Japanese culture.

An example is Japanese, which uses either native or Chinese-derived numerals depending on what is being counted.

(), also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.

In 552 or 538 a Buddha image was given to the Yamato leader which profoundly changed the course of Japanese religious history, especially in relation to the undeveloped native religious conglomeration that was Shinto.

With the introduction of Buddhism and its rapid adoption by the court in the 6th century, it was necessary to explain the apparent differences between native Japanese beliefs and Buddhist teachings.

By then he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese and English, in addition to his native Vietnamese.

In some locations, semi-cultivating Japanese knotweed for food has been used as a means of controlling knotweed populations that invade sensitive wetland areas and drive out the native vegetation .. Use in Japan as sansai or wild foraged vegetable is discussed below under (# Japan ).

During World War II, Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the case against native Californian Masaaki Kuwabara and 25 other draft resisters from Tule Lake Segregation Center on due process grounds. His decision for the defense was unique among the Japanese-American draft resistance cases, and foreshadowed the cases on the Japanese evacuation and California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law yet to be tried before the Supreme Court:

The word mizugumo is derived from the native name for the Japanese water spider ( Argyroneta aquatica japonica ).

For example, the kanji 生, pronounced shō or sei in borrowed Chinese vocabulary, stands for several native Japanese words as well.

The third group was influenced Taiwan independence and tried to get rid of the Japanese colonials to establish a native Taiwanese rule.

The region was used as a base of operations for the Japanese empire as it drove the native Ezo people from northern Honshū.

In other cases, however, characters were borrowed to represent native Japanese and Korean morphemes, on the basis of meaning alone.

The Ming Empire conquered the Red River valley for a while before native Vietnamese regained control and the French Empire reduced Vietnam to a French dependency for nearly a century, followed by an occupation by the Japanese Empire.

The wild Clematis species native to China made their way into Japanese gardens by the 17th century.

Japanese garden selections were the first exotic clematises to reach European gardens, in the 18th century, long before the Chinese species were identified in their native haunts at the end of the 19th century.

To further strengthen the authority of the state, the Supreme War Council was established under the leadership of Yamagata Aritomo ( 1838 – 1922 ), a Chōshū native who has been credited with the founding of the modern Japanese army and was to become the first constitutional prime minister.