The only group of foreigners to have the remotest claim to "nativeness" were the The Samanids (819-999), who were the first in centuries to use Farsi as an official language in centuries and they hired the poet Ferdowsi to write the Persian national epic, Shahnama: The Epic of the KIngs which has been the core of Persian education ever since. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Five] Reference
Kun readings don't always match up with nativeness nativity?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PORTOBELLO.] Reference
I suspect there is some truth in the matter, but I can only note that it is an Asterix comic (where everything is a caricature) and that a reaction such as that of my Viennese friend is to be expected from natives the world over encountering a portrayal of that nativeness (to emphasize the critic's nativeness). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: WILAMOWICEAN.] Reference
Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan æra: and, on grounds of plain sense and universal logic, to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness, both of their thoughts and diction. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
"Yes," he replied in gentle and lingering tones, and its nativeness. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Beyond "birth", how many generations (and to what level of purity) do you want to define nativeness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
The nativeness and non-nativeness of species. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
Subside if not to dark-blue nativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanies] Reference
Soon with an eagle nativeness their gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion A Poetic Romance] Reference
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