Mother tongue (disambiguation)

Mother tongue usually refers to a person's first language.

Mother tongue may also refer to:

• Proto-Human language, the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages
• The Mother Tongue (book), a history of the English language by Bill Bryson
• Mother Tongue (journal), a periodical published by the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory
• Mother Tongue (film), a 1993 film featuring Craig Parker

In music:

• Mother Tongue Records, a UK record label
• Mother Tongue (band), an American rock band co-founded by guitarist Jesse Tobias
• "Mother Tongue", a song by Dead Can Dance from The Serpent's Egg
• Native Tongue (album), 1993, Bret Michaels, Ritchie Kotzen, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rokket.