A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical...

People-first language (PFL), also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing...

most-spoken first languages in 2018 were: List of languages by total number of speakers List of sign languages by number of native signers List of language families...

second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1). A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of...

first-language acquisition: speech perception always precedes speech production, and the gradually evolving system by which a child learns a language...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both...

language as the national language is the first official language. 2 The English language is recognised as a second official language. "Maori Language...

The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study...

A first-generation programming language (1GL) is a machine-level programming language and belongs to the low-level programming languages. A first generation...

approximately 150 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023...

française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the...

HIT: The First Case is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film directed by debutant Sailesh Kolanu and produced by Prashanti Tipirneni. It stars...

over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family...

as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived...

First Language is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers three times a year in the field of language. The journal's editor is Chloë Marshall...

Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language. For first or native language attrition, this process is generally...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World, or the Urlanguage is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. The...

Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages...

spoken Germanic language, after English, both as a first and as a second language. German is also widely taught as a foreign language, especially in continental...

including by 32.9 million speakers as a first language, and an additional 10 million speakers as a second language. A 2023 World Bank survey found that 80%...

thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...

speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of...

Indo-European language as a first language—by far the most of any language family. There are about 446 living Indo-European languages, according to an...

Persian as a language name is first attested in English in the mid-16th century. Farsi, which is the Persian word for the Persian language, has also been...

widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India...

indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly...

Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 25 million people as a first language. Romanian was also known as Moldovan in Moldova, although the Constitutional...

classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused...

these languages are often undergoing a process of revitalisation. Languages that have first-language speakers are known as modern or living languages to...