I will address this person in
his mother tongue: 'Here, cospetto!
All varieties of human speech are like
his mother tongue to this rare man.
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, said since a household may consist of persons related by blood or of unrelated persons or a mix of both, it is absolutely necessary to ask every person about her or
his mother tongue.
It has gotten to terrible that a child who speaks the English language fluently is considered intelligent, while the one who speaks
his mother tongue fluently is considered 'local.'
Every physiologically and mentally normal person has learned the main structure and basic vocabulary of his mother tongue by the end of childhood.
It is a fact the National language is recognized throughout the world but we can't ignore the value of mother tongue as everyone is strong in his mother tongue and feels easy in its uttering.
Suppose a Kurdish boy learns
his mother tongue from his surroundings and receives education in Kurdish at school.
It was not immediately clear whether Jha would take oath of office in Nepali or
his mother tongue, Maithili.
In addition to appreciating the importance of language in the educational process, and as a means of preserving the people's culture, the government considers it to be in the interest of national unity that each child should be encouraged to learn one of the three major languages other than
his mother tongue. In this connection, government considers the three major languages in Nigeria to be Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba (NPE, Policy document, paragraph 8 1991, p 9)
How can someone who cares so passionately about religion, literature and the state of the arts in Wales not understand another individual's affection for
his mother tongue?
Research shows that a child is capable of learning not just
his mother tongue, the medium of academic instruction, but also several other languages," language expert Abhinav Shukla told Gulf News.