Native may refer to:
People
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Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth
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Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
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Native Americans (disambiguation)
In arts and entertainment
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Native (band), a French R&B band
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Native (comics), a character in the X-Men comics universe
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''Native'' (album), a 2013 album by OneRepublic
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''Native'' (2016 film), a British science fiction film
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The Native'', a Nigerian music magazine
In science
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Native (computing), software or data formats supported by a certain system
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Native language
A first language, native tongue, native language, mother tongue or L1 is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother to ...
, the language(s) a person has learned from birth
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Native metal, any metal that is found in its metallic form, either pure or as an alloy, in nature
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history. The term is e ...
, a species whose presence in a region is the result of only natural processes
Other uses
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Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education (NATIVE), a technology school district in the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation
See also
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Aborigine (disambiguation)
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Autochthon (disambiguation)
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Indigenous (disambiguation)
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Nativism (disambiguation)
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Nativity (disambiguation)
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