Possible Clues:

• First language I rejected: Swahili finally embraced
• A, O or C, for AOC
• First Latin one repeated in translation
• First, put up plait in individual clasps
• Agree to briefly, on a contract
• With 36-Across, first encounter, or what the answers to the starred clues make?
• Sign
• Nancy's milk at home one's knocked back first
• Sign language I read up about inspiring, originally
• Opening popular with one chess champion going round India