Noun:

ਮਾਤਾ - ਭਾਸ਼ਾ,

mother tongue's Usage Examples:

The major languages of Nepal (percent spoken as mother tongue) are Nepali (44.

Cultures[citation needed] 2012: Mother-tongue instruction and inclusive education[citation needed] 2013: Annual theme: "Books for mother tongue education" 2014: Annual.

Some of them self-identify as Iranian Arabs, Persians or just Ahvazis (see Ahvaz), and consider their mother tongue to be Arabic, though almost all are bilingual in Persian and many may have a better command of written Persian than written Arabic, since the medium of education at schools in Iran is Persian.

Bari languageThe Bari people speak the Bari language as a mother tongue.

In the 2016 census, the largest non-official European mother tongue languages were Spanish (458,850), German (384,035), Italian (375,635).

Many Eurodisco compositions feature lyrics sung in English, although the singers often share a different mother tongue.

There is no evidence that he saw the preservation or revival of his mother tongue, or any other aspect of native culture, as essential to his political demands.

* Persons for whom French is their mother tongue or who have been enrolled for 5 years in a French-language institution in a country where the official language or one of the official languages is French.

According to Jäppinen, "When pupils have to conceptualise and grasp issues in a foreign language as well as their mother tongue.

considers only the total number of distinct languages, and their relative frequency as mother tongues.

More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and.

An estimated 250,000 people speak Zeelandic as a mother tongue (West Zeelandic Flemish is included in that count), and although it is in decline, just as other regional languages, it is in no direct danger of extinction since in some villages with strong isolated communities, more than 90% of the youngsters still speak Zeelandic.

German is the most widely spoken mother tongue (18 per cent of the EU population), and the second.

Synonyms:

natural language, first language, maternal language, tongue,

Antonyms:

artificial language,