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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 [1] or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers to the language of one's ethnic group rather than the individual's actual first language. Generally, to state ...
Native Tongue is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Suzette Haden Elgin, the first book in her series of the same name.The trilogy is centered in a future dystopian American society where the 19th Amendment was repealed in 1991 [1] and women have been stripped of civil rights.
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Current distribution of human language families. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
Native Tongue is a novel by Carl Hiaasen, published in 1991. Like all his novels, it is set in Florida . The themes of the novel include corruption, environmentalism, exploitation of endangered species, and animal rights.
Native Tongues, an American hip hop collective; Native Tongue (Poison album), 1993; Native Tongue (Switchfoot album), 2019; Native Tongue, a 2018 album and single of the same name by Australian singer-songwriter Mo'Ju "Native Tongue", a song by Sara Groves from her 2015 album Floodplain
An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not necessarily ...
Two of Canada's territories give official status to native languages. In Nunavut, Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun, known collectively as Inuktut, are official languages alongside the national languages of English and French, and Inuktitut is a common vehicular language in territorial government.