Why do we call our language…Our Mother Tongue?

Question

Why do we call our language…Our Mother Tongue?

Answer 1

THE LANGUAGE YOU WERE TAUGHT TO USE IS YOUR MOTHER TONGUE - READ THE POEM!

To My Fellow Children

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Whenever people of a country truly love

The language which by heav'n they were taught to use

That country also surely liberty pursue

As does the bird which soars to freer space above.  

For language is the final judge and referee

Upon the people in the land where it holds sway;

In truth our human race resembles in this way

The other living beings born in liberty.  

Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue

Is worse than any best or evil smelling fish.

To make our language richer ought to be our wish

The same as any mother loves to feed her young.  

Tagalog and the Latin language are the same

And English and Castilian and the angels' tongue;

And God, whose watchful care o'er all is flung,

Has given us His blessing in the speech we calim,  

Our mother tongue, like all the highest tht we know

Had alphabet and letters of its very own;

But these were lost -- by furious waves were overthrown

Like bancas in the stormy sea, long years ago

Answer 2

Two reasons.

1.) It's the language our mother teaches us

2.) It's the language of our home country, 'the mother-land', hence the mother-land speaks the mother tongue.

Answer 3

Our mother is the first person we know, and our native language is the first we know.

Mother...

Answer 4

like the Mother Land type thing

where you came from you know like you came out of your Mother...where you originated.

Answer 5

" mother tongue is a language with which a kid calls his mother for the first time "

Answer 6

because new born baby regularly hears the voice of her/his mother, imtionaly mothers speeks the language which she taught.

Answer 7

We start learning language from our mothers.

Whatever she speaks become our mother tongue.  

Answer 8

We call our language the ‘mother tongue’ because the father seldom gets to speak!  LOL!!!.