And he's to pray, probably in German, using his native language for the first time during this visit.

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After his death, his family said he was always proud of his Welsh roots and spoke his native language at every opportunity.

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Instead, she believes his grammar and sentence construction indicate that Catalan was his native language, and he would have been from what was then the Kingdom of Aragon in northeastern Spain.

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Exile is Mr Abdolah's recurring theme and, if language is a native land, his writing is a special homecoming.

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Next door, a native speaker of the Irish language, Thomas Gildea, won by campaigning for his constituents' right to watch British television without paying for it.

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