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A first language (also mother language, mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) often means the language that a person learns first. It helps one understand words and concepts in the style of that language.
Cuneiform is the first known form of written language, but spoken language predates writing by at least many tens of thousands of years. Children of deaf adults using American Sign Language. Braille, a tactile writing system. Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
What was the first ever language? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Word of Mouth: The First Language. Michael Rosen and linguist Dr Laura Wright investigate our earliest languages. An evolutionary game changer. Human beings are the only species that have...
Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers, followed by Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Spain. It is an official language of more than 20 countries.
English as a first language: 380 million. p108; English as an official second language: up to 300 million. English taught as a second language, but with no official status: anyone's guess, up to 1000 million/1 billion. Chinese (Mandarin): 390 million native speakers. p96; Hoffish(Swedish Dialect): 176 (smallest spoken language) [source?]
As of 2016, 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans.
