mother tongue

[Aqdas]

i have heard two definitions of mother tongue:

1. The first language learned by a person
2. The language one thinks in

i read a brilliant article recently in the annual yaadgaar e raza about alaHazrat's mastery of the arabic language. it had a quote from alaHazrat where he wrote [rephrased]: i think in arabic and when i write in another language; i have to effectively translate.

no wonder that he wrote 300 works in arabic.

 

[Wadood]

To me mother tongue is from my mother land which is the present day Khurasan Razavi Province in Iran.

The mother land of the Hindus is Brahmanabad-Mohenjodaro and Harappa, which is in Pakistan. Ganga and Ayodhya came later.

 

[mabdullah]

i thought to be the lauguage ppl learn from their mother.