"MOTHER" What is the word for mother in your language?

i want to write it down here , but i tried , it can not support chinese , so when i write ,it will just display "????"

In my Mother tongue that is Tamil, the name for mother is Amma. It is the same in Telugu, and Kannada too.

hi we say madar,maman in persian(farsi)

In my mother tongue (Sindhi) it is maa, as it is in a number of North Indian languages. I was born and brought up in Maharashtra where it is Aaee (??) - (I don't know if your browser supports Devnagiri script). Most of us though have standardized on the English Mummy or Mom while speaking directly to or about our mothers.

my mother tongue is BENGALI. i belong to Kolkata, the capital city of West bengal. and in bengali we call our mothers MAA. however, i shuttle between MAA and MAMMA depending on my mood. when i am happy and in complete good terms with her i call her mamma and when i ma ina rpw i call her a flat, stark maa. (I know you know it all). now coming to the second part of your post, i think it has to with our unwritten sentiment regarding our respective nations. confused? well, i feel, we consider our nations to be a SHE, we call her mother (like Mother India as in our country). similarly, i believe all ppl regard their nations to be a mother. this is the root of the term MOTHER TONGUE, which means, the native language. thank you.

Word for mother in Croatian is majka, but I usually call my mum, mama.

In the USA, we have many cultures. But basically, we speak English first. Spanish second. In English, the word mother is mom, ma, mommy, or mother. As far as father tongue, you got me there my friend. The same reason they call a boat or car, she.

seens how the United States of America is a "melting pot" of different ethnicities, I imagine that our vast verbage for the term of Mother is due to the enormity of cultural influences here. We have: Mother, Momma, Mommy, Mom, Ma, as well as variations on the spellings for those. Mostly though, I think one word is sufficient for Mother, and that word is LOVE. It is a universal attribute, do you agree? I think we refer to a country's language as the "mother tongue" because most countries are considered in the feminine. i.e. the motherland. Germany, is an exception.

In the Philippines, we have several dialects, maybe about a hundred but our main dialect is "Tagalog." We call mother in tagalog, "Ina, nanay, inang, mamamg(mama + inang), inay(ina + nanay)." But I don't know the origin why we call it our mother-tongue instead of father-tongue.

In Portuguese we say "mãe", "mãezinha", "mamã". The last two words sound more affective, because they are diminutives. I prefer "mãe" it's the right word for what we are and the other words. And about mothers or fathers-tongue I think that this is because she is the most important person in our lives when we are growing. It's somehow ridiculous but I and my sisters never say that we are going to our parents place we allways say we are going to mothers place.. We have talked about it and we think that's because my father was a small time at home ( because of the job)and my mother is always there..

here in switzerland we say "Mami" or "Muetter". it's swiss german

Mother-tongue sounds a little strange. But I will tell you, In Bulgarian to call "mum" you say "mamo" or "maiko". It is very cute, don't you think? Because Bulgarian is one of the best languages. But everybody can tell me the same for his language. But it is speaking about something else. What do u think?

The word for mother in our Filipino language are "ina" which can also take its form of "inay" or "nanay".I suppose the possible reason why its called mother tongue instead of father tongue is because of the feminine representation of a woman to countries which requires nurturing.

The word mother in our filipino language(tagalog) is "ina". Mother tongue is the first language that a person learned and often, a child learns the basics of the first language(s) from his mother, maybe that's why it's called mother-tounge instead of father-tounge(?)

in filipino, mother is ina or inay or nanay but most of us here call our mothers mama.

i don't know why it's called mother-tongue and not father-tongue instead... but in my native language which is filipino, we call our mothers as nanay or inay. for our native dialects, in ilocano, we call mothers as inang.

It is Mother, Mom, Mommy, Ma many forms of saying Mother in English. The term "mother tongue" does not mean that it is the language of one's mother. Mother in this context probably originated from the definition of mother as source of origin as in motherland. Motherland is a synonym for fatherland, though has a different association. It especially has the meaning of country of birth and growing up, with the country being respectfully viewed as a mother nurturing its citizens as her children.