Our own Mother Tongue

              Mother tongue can be our identity in this world. It is our first language. Maybe it’s different but it is important to obtain our cultures, tradition and maybe our own selves.

 A first language (also native language, mother tongue, arterial language)is the languages a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic idenity. In some countries, the terms native language or mother tongue refer to the language of one's ethnic group rather than one's first language. Sometimes, there can be more than one mother tongue, when the child's parents speak different languages. Those children are usually called bilingual.

I had my only one mother tongue because my parents are both have one language. So, it means that I am not a bilingual. My mother tongue is Maranao. I am a Muslim and having this mother tongue, I can communicate to other Muslim all over the Philippines. I can’t communicate to others by using this language so there’s what we call second language like Iloko and Tagalog. So, by using this we can be our savior of our own mother tongue.

Love our mother tongue even if we are not similar to others. And be proud of it because preserving it is like preserving a precious gem that cost very expensive.