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unusual facts about indigenous language


Meyrick Pringle

With the start of the Champions Trophy cricket tournament which took place in June 2013, the new language channel did phenomenally well and since to date Pringle has become a controversial figure being the first white male South African to commentate in a South African native language.


Juan María de Salvatierra

He soon mastered an indigenous language, and in seven years established six other missions along the Baja California coast.

Sioux language

Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe.


see also

Arara

Mato Grosso Arára language, an indigenous language spoken by the Arara tribe in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Jericoacoara National Park

The word Jericoacoara comes from Tupi (an indigenous language) and means "house of turtles."

Julio C. Tello

Tello was born a "mountain Indian" in an Andean village in Huarochirí Province, Peru; his family spoke Quechua, the most widely spoken indigenous language in the nation.

Mary Jane Cain

Mary Jane Cain spoke a local indigenous language, possibly Gamilaraay, and a manuscript compiled by Mary is held at the State Library of New South Wales containing wordlists of place names and the natural environment.

Parkes High School

Wiradjuri, which is the indigenous language of the Aboriginal people of the same name who inhabited and continue to inhabit the area, is taught in Years 7 at the school in conjunction with the local Aboriginal community.

Patawalonga River

'Patawalonga', literally from the local Kaurna Indigenous language, is derived from 'Pattawilya + -ngga', the component parts being: Patta, which means a swamp gum tree (Eucalyptus ovata) and wilya meaning a branch while -ngga is a suffix used to indicate that the name is a location, patta-wilya-ngga the place of the branches of the swamp gum.

Yaruro language

The Yaruro language (also spelled Llaruro or Yaruru; also called Yuapín or Pumé) is an indigenous language spoken by Yaruro people, along the Orinoco, Sinaruco, Meta, and Apure rivers of Venezuela.