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    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...
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  • People-first language (PFL), also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing...
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    minority languages may be under-reported in favour of a national language. The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers...
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  • first-language acquisition: speech perception always precedes speech production, and the gradually evolving system by which a child learns a language...
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  • 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...
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    first explicitly formulated the distinction using the French word language for language as a concept, langue as a specific instance of a language system...
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    An extinct language is a language that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers, especially if the language also has no living descendants...
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    language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language...
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  • A first-generation programming language (1GL) is a machine-level programming language and belongs to the low-level programming languages. A first generation...
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    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...
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  • Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which...
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    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...
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    spoken language in Senegal, as a first or second language (80%). Mande languages spoken include Soninke, and Mandinka. Jola (Diola) is a main language in...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • language must draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language. For first or native language attrition, this process is generally...
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  • proto-human language (also proto-sapiens, proto-world) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. The concept...
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    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...
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    [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely...
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    approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers according to the 2017...
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    languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
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    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...
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    simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script. It is spoken...
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    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...
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    of Bangladeshis speak Bengali (including dialects) as their first language. Bengali Language Implementation Act, 1987 made it mandatory to use Bengali in...
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