Introduction 'Mother tongue' is an interesting English expression. Like many languages, English has a number of gender-specific terms that don’t refer to gender-specific ideas and concepts. And this complicated relationship between language and gender is what Sam and Georgina are talking about in this programme. This week's questionWhich of these languages is the newest? Is it: A: Esperanto
B: Afrikaans
C: Light Warlpiri Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularyprimary caregiver
the person most responsible for looking after someone point of origin
the place or time where something begins or comes from metaphor
a way to describe something by saying that it is something else with similar qualities perceive
to understand something to be true, to think of something in a particular way prestigious
important, respected a disparity
a difference, an inequality Transcript Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript
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