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  2. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages.Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. . Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond En

  3. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.

  4. Tiwa-English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Dictionary: Pages: 864: 7610 headwords, 8576 sub-entries, thousands of phrases, idioms and examples, all marked for their phonemic tones with indication of borrowings from Assamese/Bengali, Hindi, Khasi and Karbi dialect synonyms in the Amsai, Magro and Amkha dialects, besides the primary Marjong variety.

  5. Indigenous language - Wikipedia

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    An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not necessarily ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Indigenous - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous may refer to: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention; Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band; Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse; Indigenous, Australian, 2016

  8. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    From Aymara, an indigenous group in the Andes, and therion, which is Greek for "beast". [41] Bixa orellana (achiote) malvale: Taíno and Nahuatl: The generic name derives from Taíno bixa. The common name is from Nahuatl āchiotl, the name of the plant. [5] [42] Black sapote (Diospyros nigra) persimmon: Nahuatl: The common name derives from ...

  9. Ojibwe language - Wikipedia

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    [49] [50] The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is an online language resource created in collaboration with the University of Minnesota. It is an accessible system that allows users to search in English or Ojibwe and includes voice recordings for many of the 17 000 entries in the collection.