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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Disability (redirect from People with disabilities)
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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Indigenous Australians (redirect from First Peoples of Australia)
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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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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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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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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Lingua franca (redirect from Diplomatic language)
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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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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Demographics of South Korea (redirect from South Korea/People)
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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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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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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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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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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List of disability-related terms with negative connotations (category Lists of pejorative terms for people)
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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People with disabilities face 1.5 times more violence than people without disabilities. The perpetrators are often people known to the person with disabilities...
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