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

to "People first", a political party in the Philippines People-first language, a concept similar to political correctness, regarding language use relating...

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...

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...

him or to help him. People-first language is one way to talk about disability which some people prefer. Using people-first language is said to put the...

Uralic language belonging to the Finnic branch of the family and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language...

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...

Rights of Indigenous Peoples including their rights to self-determination and to protect their cultures, identities, languages, ceremonies, and access...

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...

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

westwards with the Seima-Turbino route. The first plausible mention of a people speaking a Uralic language is in Tacitus's Germania (c. 98 AD), mentioning...

language in South Africa. An official language for the Lebowa homeland during apartheid, it is the first language of over 4.6 million (9.1%) people according...

or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some...

The People First Party (PFP, Chinese: 親民黨; pinyin: Qīnmín Dǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhin-bîn-tóng) is a centrist or centre-right political party in Taiwan. The...

least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and write in one language. Being multilingual is advantageous for people wanting to...

indigenous peoples). They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the world population)[citation needed]. This makes it the fifth-largest language family...

Hausa listen; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin...

religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. The common language and especially race are viewed as important elements by South Koreans in...

that people develop better language with a cochlear implant when they have a solid first language to rely on to understand the second language they would...

The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), or Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, are a group of several Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan...

Germanic and West Germanic language after English, both as a first and a second language. Today, German is one of the major languages of the world. It is the...

about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native...

indigenous Māori people was made the first de jure official language in 1987. New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) has been an official language since 2006. Many...

language and is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between certain Venda dialects and the Lobedu language is...

known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used...

British Columbia on Tsartlip First Nation. The organization was formerly known as the First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council, but shortened...

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

fluently by no more than about a few hundred people. The number of modern speakers of Neo-Aramaic languages is estimated from approximately 575,000 to 1...

Indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official...

is a partial list of First Nations peoples of Canada, organized by linguistic-cultural area. It only includes First Nations people, which by definition...