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...

minority languages may be underreported in favour of a national language. The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers...

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...

extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers. In contrast, a dead language is...

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

first explicitly formulated the distinction using the French word language for language as a concept, langue as a specific instance of a language system...

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...

Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which...

proto-human language, also known as proto-sapiens or proto-world, is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. The concept...

There are a number of languages used in Ireland. Since the late 18th century, English has been the predominant first language, displacing Irish. A large...

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

official language of Germany is German, with over 95 percent of the country speaking Standard German or a dialect of German as their first language. This...

Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In...

is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...

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...

census listed 123 languages spoken as a mother tongue (first language) in Nepal. Most belong to the Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan language families. The official...

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

languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...

language must draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition...

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

II, aside from the language's influence on the "Superplan" language by Heinz Rutishauser and also to some degree ALGOL. The first significantly widespread...

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...

occur across both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual, from a mature speaker's first language (L1) to a second language (L2) they are...

language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language...

of Bangladeshis speak Bengali (including dialects) as their first language. Bengali Language Implementation Act, 1987 made it mandatory to use Bengali in...

neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human community...

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