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    People-first language (PFL), also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing...
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    A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical...
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  • translates to "People first", a political party in the Philippines People-first language, a concept similar to political correctness, regarding language use relating...
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    most-spoken first languages in 2018 were: List of languages by total number of speakers List of sign languages by number of native signers List of language families...
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    Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia. In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies and this...
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  • them or to help them. People-first language is one way to talk about disability which some people prefer. Using people-first language is said to put the...
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    westwards with the Seima-Turbino route. The first plausible mention of a people speaking a Uralic language is in Tacitus's Germania (c. 98 AD), mentioning...
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    ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the...
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  • as "First Nations", "First Peoples" and "First Australians" have become more common. Being as specific as possible, for example naming the language group...
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    Rights of Indigenous Peoples including their rights to self-determination and to protect their cultures, identities, languages, ceremonies, and access...
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    groups of Aboriginal people – Indians (First Nations), Métis and Inuit. These separate peoples have unique heritages, languages, cultural practices, and...
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    117 million people speak an Austroasiatic language, of which more than two-thirds are Vietnamese speakers. Of the Austroasiatic languages, only Vietnamese...
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    more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority...
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    Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples. Over...
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  • a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically...
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    The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), or Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, are a group of several Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan...
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    British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...
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    young people especially young women in those areas and it led many Koreans to marry Filipino brides. The Korean language is the native language spoken...
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    There are several hundred languages in the People's Republic of China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but...
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    spoken Germanic language, after English, both as a first and as a second language. German is also widely taught as a foreign language, especially in continental...
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    transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin, Neo-Latin, or Latinic languages, are the languages that directly descended from Vulgar...
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    as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived...
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    Dane-zaa (redirect from Beaver (people))
    typically used for "the Real People." That spelling is used by the Dane-zaa Language Authority. Different tribes and First Nations use different spellings...
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  • language and is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between certain Venda dialects and the Lobedu language is...
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    2009). "People-First Language: An Unholy Crusade". Retrieved 24 January 2014. Folkins, John (December 1992). "Resource on Person-First Language – The Language...
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    [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of...
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    or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about...
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    is classified as an official language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In a Scottish census...
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  • British Columbia on Tsartlip First Nation. The organization was formerly known as the First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council, but shortened...
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    biased, prejudiced, or insulting to particular group(s) of people; and instead uses language intended by its proponents to avoid offense and fulfill the...
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