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# indigenous — English to French

How English *indigenous* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [indigenous in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/indigenous/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: indigenous (169 141). By style: everyday 16 · parliamentary 730 · legal and administrative 665 · UN documents 167 730.

## autochtones

Used about 126 105 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 152 · legal and administrative ≈ 152 · UN documents ≈ 125 798).

- The **Indigenous** people of North America fashioned sturdy, lightweight canoes from the bark of birch trees.
  Les peuples **autochtones** d'Amérique du Nord fabriquaient des canoës robustes et légers à partir d'écorce de bouleau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10042400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10042400) [\#10340799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10340799))

- Commissioner, what about the **indigenous** peoples?
  - Monsieur le Commissaire, qu’en est-il des peuples **autochtones**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 824869)

- Preference is to be given to **indigenous** breeds and strains.
  La préférence est donnée aux races et souches **autochtones**.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1596484)

- D. The rights of **indigenous** people
  D. Les droits des populations **autochtones**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 632616)

- Palestine should be the country of all those who wish to live there peacefully, not a land destined to a religious or ethnic group at the expense of **indigenous** groups.
  La Palestine devrait être le pays de tous ceux qui veulent y vivre en paix, pas une terre destinée à un groupe religieux ou ethnique au dépens des groupes **autochtones**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#5629420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5629420) [\#5562710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5562710))

## populations

Used about 3 601 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 106 · UN documents ≈ 3 494).

- **Indigenous** peoples of Australia
  **Populations** indigènes d'Australie
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1803206)

- (b) State of the Voluntary Fund for **Indigenous** Populations;
  (b) State of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous **Populations**;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13894357)

- Derogations for **indigenous** populations have also been clarified and their scope further limited.
  Les dérogations accordées aux **populations** indigènes ont également été clarifiées et leur portée réduite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731167)

- Journalists, **indigenous** communities, and especially women, both **indigenous** and nonindigenous, are particularly affected.
  Les journalistes, les **populations** indigènes, et notamment les femmes, indigènes ou non, sont particulièrement touchés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1361882)

- The 'Kinh', the so-called real Vietnamese, consider themselves superior to the **indigenous** peoples of the central highlands.
  Les "Kinh", les "véritables" Vietnamiens, se croient supérieurs aux **populations** indigènes des hautes terres centrales.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316175)

## peuples

Used about 138 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 137).

- Latino Americans know very few things about the **indigenous** people's history who lived here a few centuries ago.
  Les latino-américains savent très peu de choses de l'histoire des **peuples** indigènes qui habitaient ici il y a quelques siècles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ouitroisheures19 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7681759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7681759) [\#2066945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2066945))

- Or like the protection of the terrorised **indigenous** peoples fleeing from Burma.
  Ou intervenir en Birmanie pour protéger les **peuples** indigènes terrorisés fuyant le pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46631)

- I want you too to feel proud of the original **indigenous** peoples, who defend life.
  Je veux que, vous aussi, vous soyez fiers des **peuples** indigènes primitifs, qui défendent la vie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 809627)

- These remedies have often been developed from the traditional pharmaceutical products of **indigenous** people.
  Souvent, ces médicaments ont été développés depuis des produits pharmaceutiques traditionnels des **peuples** indigènes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1841459)

- Mr President, in many places in the world we are seeing violations of the human rights of **indigenous** populations.
  Monsieur le Président, en de nombreux endroits de la planète, nous voyons que les droits des **peuples** indigènes sont foulés aux pieds.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1803222)

## communautés

Used about 44 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 30 · legal and administrative ≈ 14).

- I should like now to mention the **indigenous** people.
  Je voudrais encore ajouter un mot à propos des **communautés** indigènes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731050)

- seal hunts conducted by Inuit or other **indigenous** communities which have a tradition of seal hunting in the community and in the geographical region;
  elles sont pratiquées par des **communautés** inuites ou d’autres communautés indigènes qui ont une tradition de chasse aux phoques dans la communauté et dans la région géographique;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2140537)

- However, we are not as sceptical as the rapporteur with regard to the exemptions included in the agreement to safeguard the cultural heritage of **indigenous** peoples.
  Cependant, nous ne sommes pas aussi sceptiques que le rapporteur au sujet des exceptions posées dans l'accord pour préserver l'héritage culturel des **communautés** indigènes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732975)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Colonists often take a shine to **indigenous** women.
  Les colons s'emballent souvent pour les femmes indigènes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#796815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/796815) [\#796821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/796821))

- The tilcayo of Bolivia is the newest cat species known to scientists, discovered by them in 2026, though the local **indigenous** people already knew about it.
  Le tilcayo de Bolivie est la plus récente espèce de félins connue des scientifiques, découverte par eux en 2026, bien qu'elle soit déjà connue des indigènes locaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#14055720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14055720) [\#14055759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14055759))

- Spanish isn't the only language spoken in Mexico. There are also various **indigenous** languages.
  L'espagnol n'est pas la seule langue qu'on parle au Mexique. On y parle aussi de nombreuses langues indigènes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13239722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13239722) [\#13239740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13239740))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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