Ethnic
Ethnic adjective - Of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture.
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Native and ethnic are semantically related. in cultural topic. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Ethnic", when it comes to topics like racial.
Native
Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
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To make matters worse and in line with this trope, some people learn Indonesian alongside their ethnic/native language, and unconsciously pepper their standard Indonesian with local equivalents, such as Javanese, Sundanese, Bataknese, or Minang.
Source: Poirot Speak -
India has hundreds of native languages spoken by different ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.
Source: Useful Notes / Indian Languages -
The cities of the Midlands are noted for having a larger than usual percentage of ethnic minorities, particularly Leicester, where the percentage of minorities now outnumber native Englishmen.
Source: Useful Notes / The Midlands
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