Mother tongue
A first language, native tongue, native language, mother tongue or L1 is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother tongu ...
usually refers to the language that a person learned as a child at home or a person's first language
Mother tongue may also refer to:
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Proto-Human language
The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. It would not be ancestral to sign languages.
The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysi ...
, the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages
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The Mother Tongue'', a history of the English language by Bill Bryson
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''Mother Tongue'' (journal), a periodical published by the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory
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''Mother Tongue'' (film), a 1993 film featuring
Craig Parker
Craig Parker (born 12 November 1970) is a New Zealand actor, known for his roles as Guy Warner in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street'' (1992–96, 2007–08, 2020), Haldir in the ''Lord of the Rings'' films ''The Fellowship of the Ring ...
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Mother Tongue Publishing
Mother Tongue Publishing is a small independent Canadian publishing company located on the West Coast of British Columbia. Mother Tongue publishes bold and beautiful books of B.C. fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and the series, ''The Unheral ...
, a Canadian publisher
Music
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Mother Tongue (band), an American rock band co-founded by guitarist
Jesse Tobias
Jesse Tobias (born April 1, 1972) is an American guitarist who is the lead guitarist and co-writer for Morrissey since 2004. Tobias first gained fame during a brief tenure with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993, although he was replaced by Dave ...
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"Mother Tongue" (Bring Me the Horizon song), a song by Bring Me the Horizon from ''Amo''
* "Mother Tongue", a song by Dead Can Dance from ''
The Serpent's Egg''
See also
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Mother-in-law's tongue
''Dracaena trifasciata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to tropical West Africa from Nigeria east to the Congo. It is most commonly known as the snake plant, Saint George's sword, mother-in-law's tongue, and ...
, ''Dracaena trifasciata'', a species of flowering plant
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Father Tongue hypothesis
The Father Tongue hypothesis proposes that humans tend to speak their father's language. It is based on the discovery, in 1997, of a closer correlation between language and Y-chromosomal variation than between language and mitochondrial DNA vari ...
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Native Tongue (disambiguation)
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