[lojban] Re: native language

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Monday 12 May 2003 23:32, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:08:23PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > What is the word for "native language"? I've seen {jbojbe} used for
> > "native speaker of Lojban", but no one is born speaking a language, and
> > "at time x3 and place x4" seems irrelevant.
>
> Perhaps {pavmoibangu}, with {se pavmoibangu} as a native speaker?

No, that's "first language". A person can have several native languages (I'm a 
native French-English bilingual), not all of which he may speak fluently (but 
put me in France for a week and it'll all come back). One is a native speaker 
of a language if one learned much of it while his head was soft (before about 
6).

phma
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