Sentence examples for the first language from inspiring English sources

The troubadours invented the first language of love.

For about a third, English was not the first language.

"It's a few lines of Perl script, the first language I learned.

Persian was the first language in Muslim civilization to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing.

In the metropolitan area Afrikaans is the first language of almost half the Coloureds and whites.

There, the culture is more Tyrolean than Italian, and the first language is often German.

It is the first language she has learnt since studying a smattering of French at school.

Born in south Wales, the first language I learned was Welsh.

The official language, and the first language for the vast majority of citizens, is French.

Gaelic remained the first language of most of its residents, as it still did throughout rural Highland districts.

Four-fifths of the students, with Turks the biggest group, come from homes where German is not the first language.