A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical...

People-first language (PFL), also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing...

second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1). A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of...

minority languages may be underreported in favour of a national language. The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers...

first-language acquisition: speech perception always precedes speech production, and the gradually evolving system by which a child learns a language...

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers, especially if the language also has no living descendants...

over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family...

A first-generation programming language (1GL) is a machine-level programming language and belongs to the low-level programming languages. A first generation...

first explicitly formulated the distinction using the French word language for language as a concept, langue as a specific instance of a language system...

as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived...