native language

Any other policy that unfairly disadvantages people based on characteristics over which they have no meaningful control, such as their ethnicity, race, sex, gender, religious upbringing or native language, would rightly be deemed unacceptable.

“They have provided application readers with applicants’ demographic information, including their names, native languages, and birthplaces, which could bias the readers’ evaluations.”

She said some residents avoided evacuation centers because there were no interpreters to assist them, while others complained they could not find online information about the fires in their native language.

A Korean-born reporter’s embrace of an egalitarian English pronoun freed her from the linguistic maze in her native language.

She looked so at ease, and she was, cracking jokes with the moms in her native language and letting the kids strum on her guitar.