#native language

• Allative — A grammatical case or syntactic relationship expressing the direction of movement toward an object or into the proximity of a place, being specific to agglutinative languages (such as Finno-Ugric or Caucasian). As an adjective, it describes any formant, morpheme, preposition, or grammatical construction indicating the orientation of movement toward a destination.
• Agglutinative — As an adjective, having the property of agglutinating, binding, or clumping elements into a compact whole; in linguistics, it describes a language where grammatical relationships are expressed by adding invariable affixes to the word root. As a neuter noun, it represents a binding substance used in industry for the physical joining of fine particles.
• Allophone — 1. In phonetics, a combinatory or positional variant of a phoneme, representing its concrete acoustic realization in speech depending on the phonetic context, without altering the word's meaning. 2. In sociolinguistics, a person or community in a given territory whose native language is different from the official or majority language of that region.
• Amerind — A term used in macro-linguistics and structural anthropology to designate the hypothetical phylum of indigenous languages spoken by native populations of the American continent (excluding Eskimo-Aleut languages); as an adjective, it describes a cultural element, native community, or idiom belonging to this original Amerindian group.
• Amerindian — The feminine singular form of the adjective 'amerindian'; describes a population, culture, language, or structural settlement belonging to the native peoples of the American continent. As a common noun, it designates a woman of indigenous American origin or represents the generic name used for any of the languages spoken by the natives of the Americas.