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Mother tongue usually refers to the language that a person learned as a child at home or a person's first language

Mother tongue may also refer to:

• Mother tongue, or language, a proto-language in historical linguistics
• Proto-Human language, the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages
• The Mother Tongue, a history of the English language by Bill Bryson
• Mother Tongue (journal), a periodical published by the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory
• Mother Tongue (film), a 1993 film featuring Craig Parker
• Mother Tongue Publishing, a Canadian publisher

Music

• Mother Tongue (band), an American rock band co-founded by guitarist Jesse Tobias
• "Mother Tongue" (Bring Me the Horizon song), a song by Bring Me the Horizon from Amo
• "Mother Tongue", a song by Dead Can Dance from The Serpent's Egg

See also

• Mother-in-law's tongue, Dracaena trifasciata, a species of flowering plant
• Father Tongue hypothesis
• Native Tongue (disambiguation)

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