Tags: Language.

A first language (also native language mother tongue arterial language or L1) is the language(s) a person has learned from birth or within the critical period or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity. In some countries the terms native language or mother tongue refer to the language of one’s ethnic group rather than one’s first language.

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