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2 days ago · Sam. In this programme, we’ll be hearing about an issue experienced by many child refugees who are forced to leave their home – the loss of their first, native language, or mother tongue, as ...
1 day ago · The "mother tongues" hypothesis was proposed in 2004 as a possible solution to this problem. W. Tecumseh Fitch suggested that the Darwinian principle of "kin selection" —the convergence of genetic interests between relatives—might be part of the answer. Fitch suggests that languages were originally "mother tongues".
2 days ago · The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeast European plains.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
3 days ago · 'Mother tongue' is an interesting English expression. Like many languages, English has a number of gender-specific terms that don’t refer to gender-specific ideas and concepts. And this...
1 day ago · THERE has been a lot of discussion on the mother tongue, most especially on how it could be taught to and learned by children. In the last 10 years, the Department of Education has implemented a mother tongue-based multilingual education, where children begin their early years of education in their mother tongue. A lot of effort has been put into implementing this, including developing ...
2 days ago · The mother-tongue of Aruba is Papiamento. It is a language, not a dialect, and evolved from several older languages as most languages today have done. Our language's name is derived from the Portuguese verb 'papear' which means 'to jabber' or the verb in Spanish meaning to speak incoherently.
2 days ago · French is the second-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. French is the second-most taught foreign language in the EU.
