Because in Latin the word is "lingua", which is feminine.
Rahul Dravid's mother tongue is Kannada.
Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest number of people as their mother tongue.
Spain does not speak German as a mother tongue. The official language in Spain is Spanish, also known as Castilian.
The mother tongue language is usually the first language learned because it is the language spoken at home by parents and other family members. Children are exposed to their mother tongue from a very young age, which makes it the language they are most comfortable with and proficient in. This early exposure to the mother tongue also helps in building a strong foundation for language development.
A mother tongue is the language that a child learns to communicate in his family as an institution in a community.The child as an infant is under the care of his/her mother who helps him/her to communicate. In recent times the genetic markers in the DNA with neurological development in a child is considered important in the syntactic structures & semantics of a language as mother tongue.
I think There are many but i am sure about just one and that is France. that why French is called father tongue not mother tongue.
yes, your mother could send your father to court. Lots of things can be sent to court.
Her mother tongue is 'Tulu'.
The Mother Tongue has 279 pages.
== 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.
The ISBN of The Mother Tongue is 0-380-71543-0.
Rahul Dravid's mother tongue is Kannada.
English is her mother tongue. It is due to her place of birth, She was born and raised in London.