mother tongue

Anxiety about immigrants’ attachment to their mother tongues goes back to colonial days.

Rapping in the Irish language, a hip-hop trio from Belfast lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

"Iranians were here. They all fled," one of them says, speaking in his mother tongue, a dialect of Turkish.

Learning French while also developing language skills in one's mother tongue is no easy task.

Ms Nayimuli said that while growing up she would constantly speak Xhosa, her mother tongue and one of South Africa’s official languages, to “prove her South African-ness”.