mother tongue does not mean that you have to speak yr native language.. one can change their mother tongue as they wish.. eg.. if i would like my children to speak English, being a malay i can always start to speak to them from birth and eventually English has become the mother tongue of the family.
First language (native language, mother tongue), corresponsigly, the person is called a native speaker of the language.
The term "mother tongue" could be misleading. In some paternal societies, mothers are from different places and speak different dialects or languages. Yet their children usually only speak their local language. Only a few will learn to speak his/her mother's language like a native. Actually, mother in this context probably originated from the definition of mother as source, or origin.
One can have two (or more) native languages, thus being a native The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena
As Miss sarada said that your mother tongue is the language your mother spoke to you when you were born. I asked my mother, she said she didn't talked to me personally, :P but did however speak urdu around me. So here is basic information on Urdu.
Urdu,historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Pakistan and one of the 23 official languages of India . Its vocabulary developed under Sanksrit, Persian, Arabic and Turkic influence on Khariboli. Urdu was mainly developed in Lucknow, India and began taking shape during the Delhi Sultanate as well as Mughal Empire (1526–1858) in the Indian Subcontinent.
Scholars independently categorize Urdu as a standardised register of Hindustani termed the standard dialect Khariboli.[6] The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Urdu. In general, the term "Urdu" can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions.The original language of the Mughals had been Turkish, but after their arrival in South Asia, they came to adopt Persian and later Urdu. The word Urdu is believed to be derived from the Turkish, word 'Ordu', which means army encampment. It was initially called Zaban-e-Ordu or language of the army and later just Urdu. It obtained its name from Urdu Bazar, i.e. encampment (Urdu in Turkish) market, the market near Red Fort in the walled city of Delhi.
Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of native speakers, among all languages. It is one of 23 official languages of India and the national language of Pakistan and is well-spoken in both the countries.
Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardised form of Hindustani.The main differences between the two are that Standard Urdu is conventionally written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and draws vocabulary more heavily from Persian and Arabic than Hindi, while Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devanāgarī and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit comparatively more heavily. Some linguists nonetheless consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language; however, others classify them separately due to sociolinguistic differences.
Additional information: some English words that are derived from Urdu -
My mother speaks Cantonese but my father speaks Tamil. They communicate with each other via English. So I can say that the first language I was exposed to is Malaysian English. Malaysian English originated from British English which is the language we spoke pre-Independence. Just after Independence, Malaysian English was similar to British English. After some time, our national form of English underwent some changes and quickly became the distinct form of Malaysian English that it is today, which is heavily influenced by Malay, Tamil, Chinese languages and American English.
English meanwhile originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britian by Germanic settlers. The Old English then developed to reflect Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britian, then influenced bby the Scanidavian languages and later by the Normans. German language meanwhile was influenced by Latin (which came from the Latin speaking Roman empire). As a result, the vocabulary of the English language became very wide. The most famous surviving work from the Old English period is the poem ‘Beowulf’, author unknown. Old English is incomprehensible from today’s English and has different spellings for vowels.
Middle English lies around 1066 and about 1470 when a London-based English started to become widespread. This version of English also became widespread because of the invention and use of the printing press.
The next stage is the Early Modern English. Early Modern English is identified with ‘the great vowel shift’. It is quite complicated to describe the vowel change. Better to read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Modern English, from 1800 onwards, is the most easy to comprehend because it is most similar to today’s English in terms of grammar and spelling.
English is a very old language and the history is actually very detailed and interesting. The development of the language, and of Malaysian English is also fascinating. What I have seen now is that the government is largely responsible for the deterioration of the English language in Malaysia.
Just after Independence, our English was on par with the British and most schools adopted English as the language of communication. When B. Melayu was promoted as the national language, Malaysian English was not just sidelined, its value was reduced significantly. You can see this by the ridiculous standard set for the MUET (Malaysian University English Test) whereby a pass is not necessary to qualify for university entrance (during my STPM time some years back). This resulted in students not taking the exam seriously. The syllabus for the subject has also been simplified over the years so that a majority of students leave school without a sufficient grasp of the language.
To me… mother tongue is the language that a child learned at the early age. It is learned through interaction with parents and environment. As for me, my mother tongue is Tamil. So Tamil actually originated from india and is also widely spoken in Malaysia , sri lanka,Singapore. It had an official status in these places and are recognized. Tamil is classified into 3 different eras. That is the old tamil, the middle tamil and modern tamil.the old tamil can be found in Thirukkural and the old epic stories. The old tamil has influences from the Brahmin culture and traditions in 5th century And that’s why it is called the pure tamil. Next the middle tamil is that tamil that was learned in the 13th century in Thevaram is devotional songs and can also be found in the short stories that tells stories about their life and death. the modern tamil is more to the Sanskrit terms and stories that they implement to show their culture and lifestyle. But for me im just using the modern tamil that was taught to me.
my mother tounge is malay,because mother tounge is the first language that you learn since you were born.
however,although my mother tounge is malay,i also learn mandarin as my second language. i went to chinese kindergarten and i also went to a chinese primary school until standard six.
The history of Malay language is divided into four periods : Old Malay, Early Modern Malay, Late Modern Malay and Contemporary Malay.
Old Malay ( 682 -1500 C.E.) begins with records of poems and thoughts on writing materials made from plants described as the sharp cursive Rencong, an ancient script believed to be native to South-east Asia. When the Indians set their feet on the Malay Archipelago, they brought along Vatteluttu or Pallava, an ancient Tamil script from South India. Pallava was accepted as the Malay writing system and gradually evolved into an ancient royal Javanese script called Kawi.
Early Modern Malay ( 1500-c1850 ) The Malacca Sultanate as a patron of the Malay language played an important role in using the language to spread Islam thus changing Malay's pro-India nature to pro-Arabic. Adapting Arabic into Jawi script enabled the Malays to record their experiences, religious laws and oral literature into a collection of Malay classical literature. An example is the Malay Annals preserved by British Historian Sir Richard O. Winstedt.
Late Modern Malay ( c1850 - 1957 ) By this time Malay has borrow words from the colonists namely: Portuguese, Dutch and English. Standardized dictionaries and grammars appeared together. A prominent figure in this field was Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad, better known as Za'ba,has great influence on pre-independent Malay by codifying Malay grammar and modifying the Jawi spelling system.
Contemporary Malay ( after 1957 )as malaysia and indonesia have a good relationship after the confrontation, resulting in a common spelling system in 1972. Thanks to this project, instead of several spelling systems, today there is only one spelling system for Malay in Malaysia.
G.Vijaya Mother tongue is one’s native language or the language learned by children and passed from one generation to another generation. Language has always been important in culture. It is important to identify themselves with their country through not only the culture but through the language. In addition, the language doesn't always mean that you came from that country. But it tells of your heritage, family back ground, the life, culture, history, and living styles. In addition to that, my mother tongue is Tamil in which it is a very old language and belongs to the Dravidian age. It is spoken by the Tamils in Srilanka, India and Singapore as well as Malaysia. There are more than 77 million speakers of this language around the world. It is 2000 years old. It was originated in the Dravidian age and later influenced by Sanskrit. The earliest known Tamil inscriptions date back to at least 500 BC. The oldest literary text in Tamil, Tolkāppiyam, was composed around 200 BC. The Tamil alphabet is thought to have evolved from the Brahmi script, though some scholars believe that its origins go back to the Indus script. Well, for me, Tamil is such a beautiful and mesmerizing language. It’s ancient but easy to acquire. Besides that, the Tamil language is seen as a very unique language.
Mother tongue is the first language that acquired by children from their mother. Mother in this context probably originated from the definition of mother as source or origin. In some parental societies, the wife moves in with her husband and might have a different language or dialect. Their children usually only speak their local language. Only a natives will learn to speak their Mothers' language. In the context of population censuses, Canadian population defines Mother tongue as "the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census".
In my family situation, my father's race is Suluk(a particular race that originated from Kesultanan Sulu) and my mother's race is Bajau(a Bumiputra in Sabah). I can speak better in Bajau language than Suluk language. This is because, Bajau language is my Mother tongue and I am a native speaker of Bajau language.
mother tongue to me.. is a language acquired by a child from their parents.
ReplyDeletemother tongue does not mean that you have to speak yr native language.. one can change their mother tongue as they wish.. eg.. if i would like my children to speak English, being a malay i can always start to speak to them from birth and eventually English has become the mother tongue of the family.
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ReplyDeleteFirst language (native language, mother tongue), corresponsigly, the person is called a native speaker of the language.
ReplyDeleteThe term "mother tongue" could be misleading. In some paternal societies, mothers are from different places and speak different dialects or languages. Yet their children usually only speak their local language. Only a few will learn to speak his/her mother's language like a native. Actually, mother in this context probably originated from the definition of mother as source, or origin.
One can have two (or more) native languages, thus being a native The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena
As Miss sarada said that your mother tongue is the language your mother spoke to you when you were born. I asked my mother, she said she didn't talked to me personally, :P but did however speak urdu around me. So here is basic information on Urdu.
ReplyDeleteUrdu,historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Pakistan and one of the 23 official languages of India . Its vocabulary developed under Sanksrit, Persian, Arabic and Turkic influence on Khariboli. Urdu was mainly developed in Lucknow, India and began taking shape during the Delhi Sultanate as well as Mughal Empire (1526–1858) in the Indian Subcontinent.
Scholars independently categorize Urdu as a standardised register of Hindustani termed the standard dialect Khariboli.[6] The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Urdu. In general, the term "Urdu" can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions.The original language of the Mughals had been Turkish, but after their arrival in South Asia, they came to adopt Persian and later Urdu. The word Urdu is believed to be derived from the Turkish, word 'Ordu', which means army encampment. It was initially called Zaban-e-Ordu or language of the army and later just Urdu. It obtained its name from Urdu Bazar, i.e. encampment (Urdu in Turkish) market, the market near Red Fort in the walled city of Delhi.
Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of native speakers, among all languages. It is one of 23 official languages of India and the national language of Pakistan and is well-spoken in both the countries.
Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardised form of Hindustani.The main differences between the two are that Standard Urdu is conventionally written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and draws vocabulary more heavily from Persian and Arabic than Hindi, while Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devanāgarī and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit comparatively more heavily. Some linguists nonetheless consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language; however, others classify them separately due to sociolinguistic differences.
Additional information: some English words that are derived from Urdu -
Bungalow - from bangla
Garam masala - garam masala (spices)
khaki - a dust colour in urdu
My mother speaks Cantonese but my father speaks Tamil. They communicate with each other via English. So I can say that the first language I was exposed to is Malaysian English. Malaysian English originated from British English which is the language we spoke pre-Independence. Just after Independence, Malaysian English was similar to British English. After some time, our national form of English underwent some changes and quickly became the distinct form of Malaysian English that it is today, which is heavily influenced by Malay, Tamil, Chinese languages and American English.
ReplyDeleteEnglish meanwhile originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britian by Germanic settlers. The Old English then developed to reflect Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britian, then influenced bby the Scanidavian languages and later by the Normans. German language meanwhile was influenced by Latin (which came from the Latin speaking Roman empire). As a result, the vocabulary of the English language became very wide. The most famous surviving work from the Old English period is the poem ‘Beowulf’, author unknown. Old English is incomprehensible from today’s English and has different spellings for vowels.
Middle English lies around 1066 and about 1470 when a London-based English started to become widespread. This version of English also became widespread because of the invention and use of the printing press.
The next stage is the Early Modern English. Early Modern English is identified with ‘the great vowel shift’. It is quite complicated to describe the vowel change. Better to read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Modern English, from 1800 onwards, is the most easy to comprehend because it is most similar to today’s English in terms of grammar and spelling.
English is a very old language and the history is actually very detailed and interesting. The development of the language, and of Malaysian English is also fascinating. What I have seen now is that the government is largely responsible for the deterioration of the English language in Malaysia.
Just after Independence, our English was on par with the British and most schools adopted English as the language of communication. When B. Melayu was promoted as the national language, Malaysian English was not just sidelined, its value was reduced significantly. You can see this by the ridiculous standard set for the MUET (Malaysian University English Test) whereby a pass is not necessary to qualify for university entrance (during my STPM time some years back). This resulted in students not taking the exam seriously. The syllabus for the subject has also been simplified over the years so that a majority of students leave school without a sufficient grasp of the language.
To me… mother tongue is the language that a child learned at the early age. It is learned through interaction with parents and environment. As for me, my mother tongue is Tamil. So Tamil actually originated from india and is also widely spoken in Malaysia , sri lanka,Singapore. It had an official status in these places and are recognized.
ReplyDeleteTamil is classified into 3 different eras. That is the old tamil, the middle tamil and modern tamil.the old tamil can be found in Thirukkural and the old epic stories. The old tamil has influences from the Brahmin culture and traditions in 5th century And that’s why it is called the pure tamil. Next the middle tamil is that tamil that was learned in the 13th century in Thevaram is devotional songs and can also be found in the short stories that tells stories about their life and death. the modern tamil is more to the Sanskrit terms and stories that they implement to show their culture and lifestyle. But for me im just using the modern tamil that was taught to me.
my mother tounge is malay,because mother tounge is the first language that you learn since you were born.
ReplyDeletehowever,although my mother tounge is malay,i also learn mandarin as my second language. i went to chinese kindergarten and i also went to a chinese primary school until standard six.
The history of Malay language is divided into four periods : Old Malay, Early Modern Malay, Late Modern Malay and Contemporary Malay.
Old Malay ( 682 -1500 C.E.) begins with records of poems and thoughts on writing materials made from plants described as the sharp cursive Rencong, an ancient script believed to be native to South-east Asia. When the Indians set their feet on the Malay Archipelago, they brought along Vatteluttu or Pallava, an ancient Tamil script from South India. Pallava was accepted as the Malay writing system and gradually evolved into an ancient royal Javanese script called Kawi.
Early Modern Malay ( 1500-c1850 ) The Malacca Sultanate as a patron of the Malay language played an important role in using the language to spread Islam thus changing Malay's pro-India nature to pro-Arabic.
Adapting Arabic into Jawi script enabled the Malays to record their experiences, religious laws and oral literature into a collection of Malay classical literature. An example is the Malay Annals preserved by British Historian Sir Richard O. Winstedt.
Late Modern Malay ( c1850 - 1957 ) By this time Malay has borrow words from the colonists namely: Portuguese, Dutch and English. Standardized dictionaries and grammars appeared together. A prominent figure in this field was Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad, better known as Za'ba,has great influence on pre-independent Malay by codifying Malay grammar and modifying the Jawi spelling system.
Contemporary Malay ( after 1957 )as malaysia and indonesia have a good relationship after the confrontation, resulting in a common spelling system in 1972. Thanks to this project, instead of several spelling systems, today there is only one spelling system for Malay in Malaysia.
G.Vijaya
ReplyDeleteMother tongue is one’s native language or the language learned by children and passed from one generation to another generation. Language has always been important in culture. It is important to identify themselves with their country through not only the culture but through the language.
In addition, the language doesn't always mean that you came from that country. But it tells of your heritage, family back ground, the life, culture, history, and living styles.
In addition to that, my mother tongue is Tamil in which it is a very old language and belongs to the Dravidian age. It is spoken by the Tamils in Srilanka, India and Singapore as well as Malaysia. There are more than 77 million speakers of this language around the world. It is 2000 years old. It was originated in the Dravidian age and later influenced by Sanskrit.
The earliest known Tamil inscriptions date back to at least 500 BC. The oldest literary text in Tamil, Tolkāppiyam, was composed around 200 BC. The Tamil alphabet is thought to have evolved from the Brahmi script, though some scholars believe that its origins go back to the Indus script.
Well, for me, Tamil is such a beautiful and mesmerizing language. It’s ancient but easy to acquire. Besides that, the Tamil language is seen as a very unique language.
Mother tongue is the first language that acquired by children from their mother. Mother in this context probably originated from the definition of mother as source or origin. In some parental societies, the wife moves in with her husband and might have a different language or dialect. Their children usually only speak their local language. Only a natives will learn to speak their Mothers' language. In the context of population censuses, Canadian population defines Mother tongue as "the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census".
ReplyDeleteIn my family situation, my father's race is Suluk(a particular race that originated from Kesultanan Sulu) and my mother's race is Bajau(a Bumiputra in Sabah). I can speak better in Bajau language than Suluk language. This is because, Bajau language is my Mother tongue and I am a native speaker of Bajau language.
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