indigenous language

any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages a

n a surface on which an organism grows or is attached n any stratum or layer lying underneath another n an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population

n a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)