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unusual facts about native language



English Language Proficiency Test

A student whose native language was not English could have chosen to take this test instead of or in addition to Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for college entrance depending upon requirements of the schools in which the student was planning to apply.

Huron Carol

Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born").

Min Nan

The (sub)ethnic group for which Southern Min is considered a native language is known as the Holo (Hō-ló) or Hoklo, the main ethnicity of Taiwan.


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Black Lung Inner City Choir

It also features collaboration with a singer from the Amis tribe who accompanies the band in her native language.

Cerviño

In Galician, the native language of the region, it means "little deer", the -iño ending being very characteristic of this romance language.

Cutchi-Swahili

It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of Tanganyika and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Asian community.

Demographics of Montreal

Montreal is the largest French-speaking city in North America, and second in the world after Paris when counting the number of native-language Francophones (third after Paris and Kinshasa when counting second-language speakers).

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann

Dola survived her older brother by 60 years well into a millennium where Modern Hebrew had become the native language of three million people (out seven million speakers as a whole), many of whom are non-Jews.

Emin Hüseynov

Hüseynov is also the team leader for OpenOffice.org, the Azerbaijani native language project, and co-founder of Azerbaijani Linux User Group.

Eunoia

In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is the name of the native language of the Taelon race.

Gorgui Dieng

Gorgui means "the old one" (might have been named after either his maternal or paternal grand father) in his native language Wolof.

IAL

International auxiliary language, a language for communication between people who do not share a native language

Martha Hildebrandt

In August 2006, she criticized two congresswomen from Cusco, Hilaria Supa and María Sumire, for being sworn in before Congress in their native language Quechua on July 25, 2006.

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.

Mopan

Mopan people, an indigenous Maya people, whose native language is Mopan

Mozambican Portuguese

In the country's capital Maputo, it is the most widely spoken language and the native language for over 80% of the population.

Nqwebasaurus

Its fossils were found in South Africa in the Kirkwood Formation, which is called Nqweba in the native language of the Xhosa.

Paul Peter Ewald

Ewald received his early education in the classics at the Gymnasium in Berlin and Potsdam, where he learned to speak Greek, French, and English, in addition to his native language of German.

Philippine languages

Tabuy: an ethnic group living on Lapu-Lapu who reported Bikol Legaspi as their only native language (Lobel 2013:91)

Purpurmond

Purpurmond (in English, Purple Moon) was the 6th studio album by Münchener Freiheit in their native language, reaching #17 in the German charts.

Sahaptin peoples

As a result of urgent appeals from the Flathead Indians for missionaries, a Presbyterian mission was established (1837) among the Nez Percés at Lapwai, near the present Lewiston, Idaho, under Reverend H.H. Spaulding, who two years later set up a printing press from which he issued several small publications in the native language.

Simon Favre

A "talk" that Favre gave to the Choctaws on the eve of the War of 1812 was touted by historian Russell Guerin as a masterpiece of diplomacy, and displayed Favre's deep understanding of the native language and culture.

Svan language

Svan is the native language of fewer than 30,000 Svans (15,000 of whom are Upper Svan dialect speakers and 12,000 are Lower Svan), living in the mountains of Svaneti, i.e. in the districts of Mestia and Lentekhi of Georgia, along the Enguri, Tskhenistskali and Kodori rivers.

Thomas Katter

Katter, whose native language is Swedish, is the son of Olympic bronze medalist Berndt Katter.

Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships

The Russian language predominates in figure skating in Ukraine, although Ukrainian is the native language of about 67% of the general population.

Waray language

Waray-Waray language, the fifth most spoken native language of the Philippines

Welcome Here Kind Stranger

He later recorded it in Irish as "Bruach Loch Pontchartrain" for the 2002 compilation album Eist Vol.2: Éist Arís, Songs In Their Native Language.

Wiradjuri language

It was the traditional language of the Wiradjuri people of Australia, but had become extinct as a native language by 2009.

Youddiph

Maria also dubbed musicals and films for the Russian television and cinema, including Anastasia, for which she was presented with a special prize of 20th Century Fox for the best native language performance.