Native and People

Native

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

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People and native are semantically related. In some cases you can use "People" instead a noun "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

People noun - Human beings in general.

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Native and people are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead a noun "People".

Nearby Words: peopled, peopling

future	future native	future people
many	many native	many people
sane	sane native	sane people
poor	poor native	poor people
Other adjectives: intelligent, actual, real, black, living, young, beautiful, important, few, strange, last, different.

It goes for both white people and native tribes, in fact some of the most interesting parts of the (unabridged) books are the ways they manage to deal with such situations.

Source: Literature / Winnetou
For example, a character could have "English (Cityspeak)" as a native tongue and be very hard to understand by people with just "English"

Source: Eloquent in My Native Tongue
In many countries people (especially those from the countryside or "ghettos") tend to be more comfortable in their native dialect instead of the standard variety of the national language.

Source: Eloquent in My Native Tongue

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