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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly...

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%...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, while...

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...

Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...

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...

backward the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names from a language. In most...

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...