The secularized version of the Adamic language theory, it is the idea that all human languages have descended from one original proto-language.
A good example of a literal translation. In English we say ative language.
The first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual.
The very first language that you learn as a baby, which is usually the language spoken to you by your parents. Also called L1 or first language.
the language or dialect first spoken in the individual's home in his early childhood, although not necessarily spoken by him at present.
Mother Tongue is the yearly periodical of the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory (ASLIP), appearing since 1995. Its focus is on the reconstruction of linguistic macrofamilies. Editor until 2003 was Harold C.