first language

language a person was raised speaking from birth
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first language

Summary

first language is a type of language[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of type_of_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,189 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • first language's instance of is recorded as type of language[3].
  • first language's instance of is recorded as Wikibase reason for preferred rank[4].
  • first language's followed by is recorded as second language[5].
  • first language's GND ID is recorded as 4040962-4[6].
  • first language's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85090170[7].
  • first language's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 180442745[8].
  • first language's subclass of is recorded as language[9].
  • first language's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00576908[10].
  • first language's Commons category is recorded as Mother Tongue[11].
  • first language's opposite of is recorded as foreign language[12].
  • first language's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01n1c4[13].
  • first language's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph175772[14].
  • first language's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 408529[15].
  • first language's facet of is recorded as first language acquisition[16].
  • first language's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0191203[17].
  • first language's described by source is recorded as Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[18].
  • first language's main Wikidata property is recorded as P103[19].
  • first language's main Wikidata property is recorded as P12712[20].
  • first language's different from is recorded as indigenous language[21].
  • first language's different from is recorded as L1[22].
  • first language's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 6313[23].
  • first language's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 5718[24].
  • first language's YSO ID is recorded as 10957[25].
  • first language's studied by is recorded as sociolinguistics[26].
  • first language's Quora topic ID is recorded as First-Languages[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for first language include International Mother Language Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 2000[30].

Why It Matters

first language ranks in the top 8% of type_of_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,189 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include International Mother Language Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 2000[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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