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10 total sentences available.
ABBA's "Bang-A-Boomerang" is an apt song for my interest in the languages and cultures of indigenous peoples around this globe. I collect research documents about Amerindian, Eskimo, Pacific, Australian Aboriginal, African, and Asian languages and cultures.
Source: tatoeba (8811913)
Damien, my Polish-descent linguist friend adored native cultures around this world. He liked my invented language Kwaadakw, based on Amerindian languages.
Source: tatoeba (10582933)
My friend Bratislav believes the Amerindian, Robert Morning Sky, who theorizes that creatures on other worlds will tend to evolve to have humanoid shape, as they approach sentience, be they apelike, lizard-like, insect-like, plant-like, fungus-like, etc.
Source: tatoeba (10587808)
At the time of first European contact, the Western Hemisphere had about 15-40 million natives with about 1800-2000 different languages. A newer dental morphology term for "Native Indian" or "Amerindian" is "Super-Sinodont." An Eskimo is different from an Amerindian.
Source: tatoeba (10630227)
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Closest matches include native american, aboriginal american, amerind, amerindic, archaic term.
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