Birth language, family language, national language, primary language.
Mother tongue
home language, mother language, mother-tongue
the answer is alliteration ( figuartive language )
Brother from Another Mother Tongue - 2012 was released on: USA: 6 April 2012 (The 1st Occasional Joseph Gillis Short Play Festival and Bazaar, Live!)
Her mother tongue is 'Tulu'.
The Mother Tongue has 279 pages.
The cast of Brother from Another Mother Tongue - 2012 includes: Daniel Gallai as Homeless Kid Stevens Gaston as Miles Tyrone Gomes as Richie Ian Merrigan as Landlord
== In this case tongue means language. It is called mother tongue because it is the language spoken by the mother country in which you were born. In multilingual societies like Nigeria, Ghana and most African countries, mother tongue cannot refer to only the language spoken by the mother country. Mother tongue would mean the language the mother or caretaker passes on to the child. The assumption is that children grow under the eye of their mothers, hence mother tongue.
Sunil Gavaskar's Mother tongue is Konkani
"The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" was written by Bill Bryson in 1990.
Yes it is, tongue and mother tongue as a synonym.
Spanish is the mother tongue but many do speak English.