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Definition: First Language |
First LanguageNoun1. One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: First LanguageSynonyms: maternal language (n), mother tongue (n). (additional references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bolivia | About half of the people speak Spanish as their first language. (references) |
Kenya | U.S. firms should, where practical, use Kiswahili as a second language on the flyers, with English being the first language. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Dari is spoken by more than one-third of the population as a first language and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans, though the Taliban use Pashto. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bolivia | More than one-half of all citizens speak indigenous dialects as their first language, and many speak no Spanish at all, which essentially excludes them from most of the formal economy. (references) |
Minorities | Angola | The coastal population centered in Luanda and, to a lesser extent, Benguela-Lobito, predominantly speaks Portuguese as a first language. (references) |
Bahrain | Bidoon and citizens who speak Farsi rather than Arabic as their first language face significant social and economic discrimination, including difficulty in finding employment. (references) | |
Travel | Botswana | Setswana is the predominant indigenous language and the first language of most Batswana. (references) |
Thailand | Thai is the national language . English is the next most commonly spoken language, and is especially prevalent among the business community in Bangkok . (There are four distinct language dialects in Thailand, with the Central Thai dialect being the first language of 75 percent of the population.) Many Sino-Thai also speak Chinese . Because of the large number of Japanese subsidiary companies in Thailand, Japanese is also common in the business community. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
first language acquisition | 15 |
acquisition first language second | 4 |
first language programming | 3 |
first language lesson | 2 |
first language person | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "first language"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | gjuhë amëtare (mother tongue, vernacular). (various references) | ||||||||||
Arabic | اللغة القومية (mother tongue). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | modersmål. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | moedertaal (language I, mother tongue). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | ensin opittu kieli, ensimmäinen kieli. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | langue maternelle. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Muttersprache (language I, mother tongue, mother-tongue, native language, native tongue). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | lingua madre. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irstfay anguagelay primer idioma. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: flustering, granulates, granulites, guaranties, laureating, naturalise, neuralgias, regulating, resaluting. | |
-4 letters: alginates, angulates, antiglare, estuarial, faltering, featuring, figurants, filatures, finaglers, flaggiest, flaunters, flauntier, franglais, frauleins, fruitages, gangliest, gastrulae, gauntries, geranials, gesturing, gnarliest, graftages, granulate, granulite, gruelings, grungiest, guaranies, inflaters, integrals, laagering, langrages, languages, ligatures, lustering, neuralgia, reflating, reslating, restaging, resulting, retinulas, runagates, seafaring. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 73 74 4C 61 6E 67 75 61 67 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r s t   L a n g u a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0073 0074 004C 0061 006E 0067 0075 0061 0067 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407584858624667807387677371 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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