中英释义：
对我来说它就像母语一样熟悉，数字就像演奏音乐一样，作曲，自然而然地流出。
For me it's always being like a native language. Numbers playing music, composing, it's just the way it came out.
《如晴天，似雨天》《Like Sunday, Like Rain》
以同一原始母语演化而来的不同语言称为一个语系，它可能包括很多分支和子系。
A group of all languages related in this way is called a language family, which can contain many branches and sub-families.
《TED教育》《TED-Ed》
系谱学家、现代语言学家等试图重现这个过程，他们尽力追溯不同语言的共同的起源，也称为原始母语。
Like genealogists, modern linguists try to map this process by tracing multiple languages back as far as they can to their common ancestor, or protolanguage.
《TED教育》《TED-Ed》
我们也许永远不会知道语言从何而来，也不知道人类语言是否真有共同的原始母语并通过移民们散落于各处。
We may never be able to determine how language came about, or whether all human languages did in fact have a common ancestor scattered through the babel of migration.
《TED教育》《TED-Ed》
几年前，马克·扎克伯格决定要学中文。为了练习，他开始尝试在一些工作会议中，同中文母语的Facebook同事交流。
A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg decided he wanted to learn Chinese, and in order to practice, he started trying to have work meetings with some of our Facebook colleagues who are native speakers.
《Facebook COO谢丽尔·桑德伯格哈佛演讲》《Sheryl Speech at Harvard》
语言学家们甚至可以发现其他重要的历史线索，比如确定地理起源和古代人的生活方式，这是基于他们的语言哪些是母语，哪些是外来语。
Linguistics can even reveal other important historical clues, such as determining the geographic origins and lifestyles of ancient peoples based on which of their words were native, and which were borrowed.
《TED教育》《TED-Ed》
短语搭配
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学母语
acquire one's mother tongue
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原始母语
proto-language
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母语负迁移
negative transfer of mother tongue
双语例句
他用母语和家人交流。
He communicates with his family in his mother tongue.
孩子们通常在家里说母语。
Children usually speak their mother tongue at home.
我的母语是中文。
My mother tongue is Chinese.
学习一门新语言可能会影响你的母语。
Learning a new language can affect your mother tongue.
她的母语是法语，但她也会说英语。
Her mother tongue is French, but she also speaks English.
他的母语是葡萄牙语。
His mother tongue is Portuguese.
汉语是母语，英语是第二语。
Chinese is mother tongue, English is second tongue.
人们是如何学会母语的？
How do we learn out mother tongue?
也许这先前就是她的母语。
Maybe this is already her mother tongue.
一些人还把它鉴别为他们的母语。
Some identify it as their mother tongue.
原声例句