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Yakub :
mother tongue as a consept exists because people speak multiple languages no? if i didn't speak english my mother tongue would just be the language i speak
2026-05-28 20:21:22
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KIE :
isn't mother tongue just an alternative way to say native language??????? am I tripping
2026-06-22 16:47:57
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leandre.fra🔻 :
sure, i mean idk, i am not sure i agree or disagree with this take? like you can have more than one mother tongue
2026-05-28 21:16:54
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bendingdream :
monolingualism isn't a typical characteristic of European nations either. It's true nation-building in Europe was heavily intertwined with linguistic, but I am not sure if you aren't explaining your point clearly or what, but neither is the concept of mother tongue strictly reserved for one language nor is the concept of "monolingualism" as a feature of empire/state-building in any way Western/modern invention.
2026-07-15 11:14:05
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SHANAI | writer + scholar :
Yasemin Yildiz: Beyond the “Mother Tongue” — book by an Associate Professor at UCLA !
2026-05-28 20:41:27
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98fed :
your mother tongue is the language you learnt as a child, which is different from your scholarization tongue and the languages you learn later
2026-05-30 05:41:04
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Marley :
Could you explain this a little more? Ive never really thought about it but this seems interesting
2026-05-28 16:59:49
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Harbir Batth :
Comment section proving your point!
2026-05-28 20:41:23
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carro_sol :
thiiiis, i think so many people sleep on the power of linguistics, especially on multilingualism and the benefits it has on a society
2026-05-29 23:29:46
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Rigon 🇦🇱𐚁 :
I mean I always assumed your mother tongue was the language that your mother spoke to you?
2026-08-10 20:25:43
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A guy fs :
It is my dream to learn as many languages as I possibly can in the short time I have. The idea that there are people who will only ever learn 1 is kinda ridiculous to me, there is so much beauty in communication.
2026-05-29 00:57:03
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Anuszka #ffab 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇵🇸 :
How is it true for Poland? Or Czech Republic? Or Lithuania? Europe is not just France and England.
2026-05-28 20:37:14
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ang :
oh my goodness I have so much to think about
2026-05-29 06:45:46
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menitrustlover123 :
oooh interesting, ive never given much thought to this concept! its so strange to realise sometimes how many concepts we just take for granted without really knowing the roots behind them; i recently did some research on kinship metaphors in international relations (ex. “family of nations”, “european family (of nations)”, ideas of brotherhood…) and was rlly surprised to see how those ideas can also be traced back to enlightenment-influenced colonialist thinking
2026-05-30 10:55:17
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Prettyreckless :
I’m not gonna lie, I always believed that humanity would progress and unite if we had one single uniting language.
2026-05-30 01:04:24
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soop :
This exploded something in my mind. I had never thought of it like that
2026-05-28 17:56:08
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nadia. :
Every day I learn something new on this app and I love it
2026-05-28 21:12:43
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MissBerlinerin :
girl, your eyebrows are perfection 😍
2026-05-29 17:33:57
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36384948263 :
OMG OUCH i felt my brain expanding. Thanks my sibling 🤝
2026-05-28 20:27:02
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Eva :
I need more micro-scholarly TikTok’s 🫶🏼 now to add this book to my TBR and get to it in exactly two years rip
2026-06-08 05:22:22
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i love being a polyglot, ill never stop studying
2026-06-02 23:31:29
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Karamazova :
I think I don’t get exactly what you mean here yet (because my English is not Englishing today) but thanks for the book recommendation! What an interesting line of thinking ✨ Are you reading any other books on this topic that you would recommend?
2026-05-28 21:50:48
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Ricardo Marques :
And arabica is différent in what way if i can ask ?
2026-05-30 15:37:04
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kniver_ :
its fascinating because im Somali I had a friend that was from india in skl fresh out and she coukd speak 7 languages as for my somali relatives we are all over the world as you know the diaspora are everywhere and as such we speak many tongues
2026-05-30 02:16:53
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Adi :
Huh
2026-05-29 16:54:05
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