Mandarin Chinese
A language that is no longer anyone's mother tongue.
Roman works of literature are written in Latin because it was the official language of the Roman republic (later the Roman Empire). However, there probably was a difference between the formal Latin used in literature and the language spoke by the Romans.
Human beings are born with an innate ability to learn language; we are preprogrammed to acquire any language we are sufficiently exposed to before puberty. By listening and discerning meaning from context, children quickly pick up passive language skills by age 1, and from there acquire language at a break-neck pace so that by age 4 most children speak their native languages with full native fluency.
Italian.The Florence dialect of Italian.
"If the tongue be Irish, the heart cannot help but be Irish" (quote from an Englishman).
Your "mother tongue" is your first language, the language your mother would have spoken to you as a child and that would be your natural instinctive language.
== 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.
Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest number of people as their mother tongue.
If your mother tongue is some other language it alters your english accent.
A person's 'mother tongue' is the main language that they spoke when they were growing up. Usually this will be the language which they used with their mother (which explains the name): but obviously there are exceptions to this (if your mother was a Bangladeshi immigrant who married a mid-Westerner, and you grew up in Boise, then your mother tongue is probably American English - though you might still speak some Bengali with your mother). Recent language research suggests that the main language for most people is the language they speak with their childhood friends, not the language they speak at home: so 'mother tongue' may be a misnomer. It's still a useful idea though: and one that most people understand. Your mother tongue is your first language, the language you are most at ease in , the language in your dreams.
According to the Canadian 2006 census, about 78% of Canadians speak English as their mother tongue, and about 20% speak French as their mother tongue.
Someone who is bilingual knows two languages. The "mother tongue" would be the original, first language that the person learned. Usually the same language that is spoken in the region... but not always. There is not always a mother tongue. If a child grows up bilingual... two languages are spoken by the parents, and the child learns two languages from day one... that would be a case where "mother tongue" might not apply to the idea of bilingualism.
Terence Lewis's mother tongue is Konkani. He was born in Mumbai, India, and has roots in Mangalore, where Konkani is a commonly spoken language.
It is a Brythonic Celtic language spoken as the mother tongue in parts of Wales and taught in all Welsh schools.
Different dialects of Spanish and Quechua are spoken in both countries.
Your mother tongue is the language you grew up speaking. For most people, that would be the language their mother speaks.
Yes it is, tongue and mother tongue as a synonym.