people say mother tongue when they talk about the first language that they learned or the language they do best at.
for example, my first language is icelandic and my mother language is English because im better at it.
your first language
Your mother tongue is the language you grew up speaking. For most people, that would be the language their mother speaks.
Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest number of people as their mother tongue.
Irish language
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The poet does feel as if she's losing her mother tongue, at the start of then poem, she refers to her mother tongue as "rot"-ing in her mouth, that she is losing it as she has moved and is having to learn a different 'tongue', but in the end of the poem she seems to be a peace with it as she realizes that she cannot forget her 'mother tongue' as it will always come back to her. It "blossoms out of her mouth".
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.
Her mother tongue is 'Tulu'.
The Mother Tongue has 279 pages.
eegra -when you say it you should roll your tongue when you say the r like how spanish people roll their tongue when they say r's.
German is there mother tongue and 63.7% people speaks this language there!
== 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.