Lexicon of Linguistic Engineering and Cultural Adaptation Models

• To indigenize — To make autochthonous or to acquire an autochthonous character; to adapt a foreign element (word, custom, institution, technology) to local specificities, traditions, and norms until it loses its exogeneous character and is completely assimilated by the receiving community. In its reflexive form, it describes the process through which an immigrant population or a set of external concepts integrates organically into the adopting space, merging with the indigenous background.