indigenous language

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

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Questions about indigenous language

What does indigenous language mean?

indigenous language means "a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere".

Is indigenous language a common word?

indigenous language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.