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'''Mother tongue''' (native language, first language) is the [[language]] a person learns first. Usually a child learns the basics of mother tongue from his family.

Good skills in native language are essential for further learning, as native language is thought to be a base of thinking. Incomplete first language skills often make learning other languages difficult. Native language has therefore a central role in [[education]].

See also: [[bilingual]], [[language acquisition]], [[literacy]], [[second language]], [[sign language]]

[[de:Muttersprache]] [[es:Lengua materna]] [[hu:Anyanyelv]] [[sv:Modersm�l]]

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* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "Mother_tongue" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_tongue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_tongue], used under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]