First language
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A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a person first learns.[1] A person's first language helps them understand words and concepts in the style of that first language.[2]
[change] Terminology
"First language" sometimes does not mean this, however.
Sometimes first language means the language a person speaks best (his second language is language he speaks less well than his first language, etc).
Sometimes first language, second language and third language show how well one speaks a language, so a person can have more than one first language or second language.
[change] References
- ↑ Bloomfield, Leonard. Language ISBN 81-208-1196-8
- ↑ Alan Davies. The native speaker: myth and reality. ISBN 1-85359-622-1
