• As you write, "Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. (dictionary.com)
  • For the Gangwanis, their mother tongue, Sindhi, was 'good enough' for day-to-day family conversation, but not more. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • Those who are fortunate pick up one or more additional languages along the way, but they seldom supplant our mother tongue, much as we may love them. (upenn.edu)
  • Gary Shteyngart has an enjoyable essay in The Threepenny Review called "Mother Tongue," about his attachment to his native Russian and the slow process by which he took up English while living in a house "Russian down to the last buckwheat kernel of kasha. (languagehat.com)
  • Mother tongue" by Amy Tan and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua both share similar themes in their stories that demonstrate how they both deal with how different forms of the same language are portrayed in society. (ipl.org)
  • It addresses topics concerning language and the loss of the mother tongue. (bvsalud.org)
  • It focuses on the obstacles that appear when people need to make use of a foreign language with the obligation to abandon the mother tongue, in order to be able to communicate in the country of migration's language. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is intended for active as well as future native language teachers and study assistants wishing to deepen the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in mother tongue instruction and study guidance. (lu.se)
  • Course participants should already have acquired knowledge and skills about the subject of mother tongue instruction in schools, Swedish as a working language in schools, language acquisition with a focus on language and knowledge development in minority contexts, native language study guidance, multilingual literacy, language didactics with a focus on mother tongue instruction, issues relating to core values, or the equivalent. (lu.se)
  • The course provides students with advanced knowledge of current research relating to pupils' learning in the mother tongue subject in schools, appropriate research methodology to apply to mother tongue instruction and skills in the assessment of professional practice and the documentation of the progress of pupils of mother tongue instruction. (lu.se)
  • Based on research on multilingualism, language and knowledge development and language use in schools and in society, as well as on demonstrated professional practice in the assessment and documentation of pupils' language and knowledge development in mother tongue instruction, the course aims to provide students with the tools required to apply a research-based approach to mother tongue instruction in schools. (lu.se)
  • The course includes an individual assignment requiring students to apply research methodology and theory to their professional role in the activities by carrying out a scientific analysis of data collected from mother tongue instruction and to present this research at a seminar as well as reviewing another student's work. (lu.se)
  • 3. Independent project on mother tongue tuition and multilingual study guidance, 15 credits. (lu.se)
  • Does Mother-tongue Education Matter for School Achievements? (lu.se)
  • Geographic tongue is a condition where the tongue becomes inflamed, causing it to lose some of its papillae. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • People with geographic tongue will notice red, round patches outlined with white. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • According to a 2016 article in the Journal of Dentistry of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, researchers are not sure what causes geographic tongue. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Fissured tongue and geographic tongue have been reported in association with chronic granulomatous disease. (medscape.com)
  • Eidelman E, Chosack A, Cohen T. Scrotal tongue and geographic tongue: polygenic and associated traits. (medscape.com)
  • The etiology and pathogenesis of geographic tongue are still poorly understood. (medscape.com)
  • Geographic tongue affects males and females and is noted to be more prominent in adults than in children. (medscape.com)
  • The classic manifestation of geographic tongue is an area of erythema, with atrophy of the filiform papillae of the tongue, surrounded by a serpiginous, white, hyperkeratotic border. (medscape.com)
  • Lesion activity in geographic tongue may wax and wane over time, and patients are occasionally free of lesions. (medscape.com)
  • [ 10 ] Although geographic tongue is an inflammatory condition histologically, a polygenic mode of inheritance has been suggested because it is seen clustering in families. (medscape.com)
  • In a study of patients with psoriasis, geographic tongue occurred in 10% of the patients, in contrast to only 2.5% of age- and sex-matched controls. (medscape.com)
  • [ 13 ] A polygenic mode of inheritance has been suggested for geographic tongue. (medscape.com)
  • [ 14 ] No increased incidence of geographic tongue has been noted with medication use or environmental agents. (medscape.com)
  • Immunologic and psychologic parameters have been associated with geographic tongue. (medscape.com)
  • Geographic tongue has reportedly occurred in up to 3% of the general population in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • International frequency rates for geographic tongue are similar to those reported in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • No racial or ethnic predilection is reported for geographic tongue. (medscape.com)
  • Geographic tongue is a benign condition. (medscape.com)
  • Defining geographic tongue, describing its clinical appearance, and reinforcing its benign nature is usually all that is needed to educate patients and allay any concerns they may have about geographic tongue. (medscape.com)
  • Cambiaghi S, Colonna C, Cavalli R. Geographic tongue in two children with nonpustular psoriasis. (medscape.com)
  • In geographic tongue , some areas of the tongue are red and smooth (like ulcers), often surrounded by a white border. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The cause is unknown, but fissured tongue may occur with geographic tongue and some other disorders. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with geographic tongue among US adults. (medscape.com)
  • Tongue tie is when a band of tissue connects the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth, which keeps it from moving freely. (childrensmn.org)
  • In babies born with tongue-tie, the thin strip of tissue that connects the underside of the tongue to the mouth is unusually tight. (bbc.com)
  • A small blue-black discoloration on the underside of the tongue may be a tattoo caused by a fragment of dental amalgam filling material, which contains silver, becoming stuck in the tongue. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The tongue also serves as a natural means of cleaning the teeth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The front part of the tongue is very flexible and can move around a lot, working with the teeth to create different types of words. (kidshealth.org)
  • Your tongue pushes the food to your back teeth so the teeth can grind it up. (kidshealth.org)
  • Your tongue also gets help from your teeth, lips, and mouth. (kidshealth.org)
  • Tongue piercings can also increase the risk of oral health problems, including infected gums and teeth. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A tongue bar, particularly a large or heavy one, may knock into the teeth. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Older kids may have trouble speaking clearly and can't stick their tongue out past their teeth. (childrensmn.org)
  • It also appears to cause bruxism, which can cause severe injury to the teeth, cheeks, and tongue. (healthline.com)
  • Here indicated some life-threatening, linked to tongue piercing.Other problems include tetanus, heart infections, brain abscess, chipped teeth and receding gums. (answerbag.com)
  • It was painless, but he had some bleeding after brushing his teeth and tongue. (aafp.org)
  • The human tongue is divided into anterior and posterior parts by the terminal sulcus which is a V-shaped groove. (wikipedia.org)
  • The terminal sulcus divides the tongue into a posterior pharyngeal part and an anterior oral part. (wikipedia.org)
  • Posterior to the tip lies the body of the tongue, which has dorsal (superior) and ventral (inferior) surfaces. (medscape.com)
  • There can also be posterior tongue ties where a thick, tight frenulum near the base of the tongue restricts its motion. (childrensmn.org)
  • Because of the tongue's generous blood supply, most tongue lacerations do not become infected and many heal well without repair. (medscape.com)
  • The tongue's papillae (tiny, rounded projections) may become discolored if a person smokes or chews tobacco, eats certain foods or vitamins, or has colored bacteria growing on the tongue. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In the US, both the number of tongue-tie diagnoses, and tongue-tie surgeries, have soared . (bbc.com)
  • Students and workers with no symptoms might start swabbing their noses or tongues every few days to make sure they haven't been exposed. (dictionary.com)
  • If the problem is at the base of your tongue, you may not notice any symptoms. (webmd.com)
  • What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Tongue Tie? (childrensmn.org)
  • Symptoms of tongue tie can include a weak latch, easy loss of latch, gumming or biting the nipple, and nipple pain or injury in breastfeeding moms. (childrensmn.org)
  • Kids who don't have any symptoms or problems from tongue tie don't need treatment. (childrensmn.org)
  • Many children with tongue-tie will not have symptoms," says Amulya K Saxena, a consultant pediatric surgeon at Chelsea Children's Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust and president of the European Association of Pediatric Surgeons, in an interview over email. (bbc.com)
  • If illicit drug use is causing you to bite your tongue during sleep, stopping use of the drug is usually enough to stop symptoms. (healthline.com)
  • Overall, the prevalence of fissured tongue within the United States has been reported to range from 2-5% of the population. (medscape.com)
  • Zargari O. The prevalence and significance of fissured tongue and geographical tongue in psoriatic patients. (medscape.com)
  • English is my native tongue . (britannica.com)
  • It's one thing to lose your first language when you move as a child to another country where a second language is spoken, but it's quite a different matter when you go to another country as an adult and make a conscious choice to give up your native tongue and adopt the language of the place you have chosen to live. (upenn.edu)
  • I've noticed that native speakers of languages other than English, resident in the U.S., though they might speak their native tongue most of the time, revert to English numbers in certain situations, e.g. when reciting telephone numbers. (languagehat.com)
  • Anzaldua 206) By this, she presents the racism between language and culture that she has to speak the local language (American) rather than speaking her native tongue. (ipl.org)
  • As I got older my resistence to speak their native tongue began to grow. (ipl.org)
  • Written by Gloria Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue", is an opinion easy , a retrospection of her past and a story about identity and recognition of a wild tongue. (ipl.org)
  • In Gloria Anzaldua's article, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue", which was taken from her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, she is trying to inform her readers that her language is what defines her. (ipl.org)
  • On the undersurface of the tongue is a fold of mucous membrane called the frenulum that tethers the tongue at the midline to the floor of the mouth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fold of tissue under the tongue where it's attached is called the frenulum (FREN-yuh-lum). (childrensmn.org)
  • A red tongue typically occurs due to an underlying medical condition or vitamin deficiency. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is an idiopathic condition characterized by a continuous burning sensation of the mucosa of the mouth, typically involving the tongue, with or without extension to the lips and oral mucosa. (medscape.com)
  • She's a fervent Catholic who belongs to a charismatic fringe clique, People of Praise, whose members reportedly babble "the tongues" like all Pentecostals. (counterpunch.org)
  • The four paired extrinsic muscles change the position of the tongue and are anchored to bone. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fissured tongue is a totally benign condition and is considered by most to be a variant of normal tongue architecture. (medscape.com)
  • Look in the mirror at what's under your tongue and you'll see your frenulum (say: FREN-yuh-lum). (kidshealth.org)
  • Doctors don't know what causes the tongue and frenulum to form differently in a child with tongue tie. (childrensmn.org)
  • To diagnose tongue tie, doctors will check to see if the frenulum is restricting how well the tongue can move and listen to the child speak. (childrensmn.org)
  • A 2D electromagnetic articulograph using four transducer coils, three attached to the upper surface of the tongue midline plus one attached to the chin anterior part allowed continuous evaluation of tongue and chin movements in twelve young adults in good general health . (bvsalud.org)
  • The cow ran its tongue over its lips. (britannica.com)
  • When seen in association with Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, the morbidity is due not to the fissured tongue but is secondary to the granulomatous inflammation of the lips/facial soft tissues and facial paralysis. (medscape.com)
  • The speech therapist told us that she had a lip-and-tongue-tie and if those weren't addressed, the speech therapy really wouldn't be very effective because her mouth anatomy was limiting her articulation," says Canavan, meaning, her daughter couldn't move her lips and tongue freely enough to speak clearly. (bbc.com)
  • Children with tongue-tie can't extend their tongues beyond the tip of their lips. (bbc.com)
  • The taste of the spice was still on her tongue . (britannica.com)
  • With the magnetic tongue, production of canned tomatoes (and, presumably, in the future, other fruits or vegetables) could be sped up, with factories adjusting their ingredients on the fly to fine-tune the ideal canned tomato taste. (technologyreview.com)
  • The tongue not only detects gustatory (taste) sensations, but also helps sense the tactile, thermal and even painful stimuli that give food its flavor. (howstuffworks.com)
  • goblet-shaped elevations that sometimes contain taste buds and help create friction between the tongue and food. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The other happens at the base of your tongue , where it connects to your throat. (webmd.com)
  • If the cancer is on the back of your tongue, you may have radiation therapy (X-rays and other radiation). (webmd.com)
  • Try saying these letters slowly, and you'll feel how the back of your tongue moves against the top of your mouth to create the sounds. (kidshealth.org)
  • The back of your tongue is important for eating as well. (kidshealth.org)
  • The left and right sides of the tongue are separated by a vertical section of fibrous tissue known as the lingual septum. (wikipedia.org)
  • Usually, bites occur on the tip and sides of the tongue. (healthline.com)
  • Fissured tongue is a condition frequently seen in the general population that is characterized by grooves that vary in depth and are noted along the dorsal and lateral aspects of the tongue, as shown in the image below. (medscape.com)
  • The tongue hypertrophies to rebulk itself in a period of 6 months, so even loss of lateral tongue and tip often produces no permanent deficit. (medscape.com)
  • His tongue had a large lateral fungating, whitish, exophytic lesion with anterior fissuring of the entire left side of the tongue ( Figure 1 ) . (aafp.org)
  • We report the case of a woman in whom infective endocarditis followed the use of a tongue scraper. (cdc.gov)
  • Two months previously she had begun cleaning her tongue with a plastic tongue scraper purchased at her local pharmacy. (cdc.gov)
  • A literature review did not show any previous reports of endocartitis associated with use of a tongue scraper. (cdc.gov)
  • Brushing the tongue with a toothbrush or scraping it with a tongue scraper can remove such discoloration. (msdmanuals.com)
  • One small survey revealed that 3 in 51 people with tongue piercings developed infections. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Tongue piercings are most often pierced with straight barbell style jewelry. (answerbag.com)
  • A single piercing in the center of the tongue is the most common form of this piercing, but multiple piercings are also possible. (answerbag.com)
  • Recently expert shown that tongue piercings may cause the stabbing pains in face just like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day. (answerbag.com)
  • Here is a history of a teen girl who had tongue piercings: Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called 'suicide disease' because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes. (answerbag.com)
  • The tongue is a muscular hydrostat that forms part of the floor of the oral cavity. (wikipedia.org)
  • This paper aims to discuss the use of tongue piercing and its consequences in the oral cavity, specifically the periodontal tissues. (bvsalud.org)
  • On a windy winter afternoon, Raluca Mateescu leaned against a fence post at the University of Florida's Beef Teaching Unit while a Brahman heifer sniffed inquisitively at the air and reached out its tongue in search of unseen food. (dictionary.com)
  • They may be as impenetrable as foreign tongues, or slightly different from the idioms from which they spring, or barely perceptible, their existence being the subject of uncertain, even unlikely, suppositions. (princeton.edu)
  • From criminal jargons to sacred idioms, from Saussure's work on anagrams to Jakobson's theory of subliminal patterns in poetry, from the arcane arts of the Druids and Biblical copyists to the secret procedure that Tristan Tzara, founder of Dada, believed he had uncovered in Villon's songs and ballads, Dark Tongues explores the common crafts of rogues and riddlers, which play sound and sense against each other. (princeton.edu)
  • Tongue worms are parasites that live embedded in the respiratory systems of vertebrates, especially reptiles and also humans, in tropical regions. (dictionary.com)
  • in many cases, fish have been known to outlive their tongue-replacing parasites, Stefanie Kaiser, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Wellington, New Zealand, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science . (livescience.com)
  • These parasites attach themselves to the tongues of fishes and effectively become the new tongue. (livescience.com)
  • There are two groups of muscles of the tongue. (wikipedia.org)
  • The four intrinsic muscles alter the shape of the tongue and are not attached to bone. (wikipedia.org)
  • The eight muscles of the human tongue are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Your tongue is made up of many muscles. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Well, that's only partly true: The tongue is really made up of many groups of muscles. (kidshealth.org)
  • People who experience these spasms are unable to control their facial and jaw muscles during sleep, and often bite their tongues. (healthline.com)
  • This is because people with sleep apnea often have tongues that are especially large or muscles in the mouth that relax abnormally during sleep. (healthline.com)
  • Relaxed muscles and a large tongue can lead to tongue biting. (healthline.com)
  • This division is along the length of the tongue save for the very back of the pharyngeal part and is visible as a groove called the median sulcus. (wikipedia.org)
  • The upper surface of the tongue is called the dorsum, and is divided by a groove into symmetrical halves by the median sulcus. (wikipedia.org)
  • to articulate (tones played on a clarinet, trumpet, etc.) by strokes of the tongue. (dictionary.com)
  • They speak the same tongue . (britannica.com)
  • Previous research has shown that bilingual people have more tip-of-the-tongue moments than those who speak only one language. (livescience.com)
  • The stretching may give the tongue enough freedom to move normally and let the child speak clearly. (childrensmn.org)
  • Tongue tie won't prevent a child from speaking, but it can make it hard for them to speak clearly. (childrensmn.org)
  • And when they gathered on Pentecost, "suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind… and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire… and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues. (counterpunch.org)
  • That this almost universal tendency of human beings to create secret dialects out of the languages they speak shares something with poetry forms the opening premise for Daniel Heller-Roazen's learned, perplexing, and occasionally scintillating new book, Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers . (princeton.edu)
  • If something sets/gets tongues wagging or if tongues are wagging , people are talking a lot about something. (britannica.com)
  • People with leukoplakia may notice white patches on their tongue that they are unable to scrape off. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • But when they compared these people to bilinguals who spoke English and Spanish, they found that both groups had tip-of-the-tongue/finger states about equally as often. (livescience.com)
  • This explanation could account for why tip-of-the-tongue is more common in all types of bilinguals, because for people who know more than one language, all words are used less frequently. (livescience.com)
  • While there are no statistics on how many people bite their tongues, experts say it happens to everyone from time to time. (healthline.com)
  • People who bite their tongues are at risk of developing ulcers, infections, and a condition called "scalloping" on their tongues. (healthline.com)
  • Sleep apnea does not cause tongue biting, but tongue biting is common in many people with sleep apnea. (healthline.com)
  • A varied cast of characters - lawyers, grammarians, and theologians - denounced these new forms of speech, arguing that they were tools of crime, plotted in tongues that honest people could not understand. (princeton.edu)
  • Fritch recommended people interested in tongue piercing see only professional, experienced piercers and use only 'implant grade' metal jewelry. (answerbag.com)
  • Her advice to people considering tongue piercing: 'Don't do that. (answerbag.com)
  • Åberg was one of 28 people from around the continent invited to Brussels last week as the winners in the European Union's inaugural "Tongue Stories" competition. (thelocal.se)
  • Hairy tongue may develop when food debris is trapped in the papillae when people do not clean their mouth adequately. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The portions of the tongue with atrophic filiform papilla are symptomatic to acidic foods. (medscape.com)
  • Dark Tongues moves among these various artificial and hermetic tongues. (princeton.edu)
  • But recently a Jason Mraz-tweeted tongue twister had me delighting in my inability to enunciate "Irish wristwatch. (mentalfloss.com)
  • What's your favorite tongue twister that I may one day text my friends? (mentalfloss.com)
  • Although a specific etiology has not been elicited for fissured tongue, a polygenic or autosomal dominant mode of inheritance is suspected because fissured tongue is seen with increased frequency in families with an affected proband. (medscape.com)
  • This is a membrane (a thin layer of tissue) that connects your tongue to the bottom of your mouth. (kidshealth.org)
  • Tongue tie can range from mild, with only a tiny fold of tissue holding the tip of the tongue, to severe, in which the entire bottom of the tongue connects to the floor of the mouth. (childrensmn.org)
  • One woman developed so much scar tissue that it resembled what she called a 'second tongue. (answerbag.com)
  • A 31-year-old man presented with a lesion on his tongue that he first noticed six months earlier as small red dots. (aafp.org)
  • The patient often reports spontaneous resolution of the lesion in one area, with the return of normal tongue architecture, only to have another lesion appear in a different location of the tongue. (medscape.com)
  • A major function of the tongue is the enabling of speech in humans and vocalization in other animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • If you have a sore on your tongue or in your mouth that doesn't get better in a couple of weeks, see your doctor. (webmd.com)
  • A tongue piercing creates a wound in one of the most bacteria-filled parts of the body: the mouth. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Mouth protectors and tooth guards are also noninvasive modalities to assist tongue healing. (medscape.com)
  • Normally, the tongue can move out past the lower lip and reach up to the hard palate (roof of the mouth). (childrensmn.org)
  • Usually, as the baby develops, the connection between the front of the tongue and the floor of the mouth goes away. (childrensmn.org)
  • It might stay near the front of the tongue and tie the tip of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. (childrensmn.org)
  • This means that instead of resting on the roof of the mouth, the tongue is tied to the floor of the mouth, which can prevent the babies from feeding properly. (bbc.com)
  • The screaming assailant then fled the bedroom, recalled the victim, who told police that when she got off the bed, "the suspect's tongue was still in her mouth and she threw it on the kitchen floor. (thesmokinggun.com)
  • In the newly reported case, the young Italian woman's mouth jewelry apparently irritated a nerve running along the jaw under her tongue. (answerbag.com)
  • Saliva is secreted by three major salivary glands -- the parotid , submandibular and sublingual glands -- as well as other small salivary glands contained within the tongue and mouth. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Tongue scraping is advocated as a therapy for managing halitosis and as a technique for preventing dental caries by reducing bacterial counts in the mouth ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In the light of other studies based on intra-oral pressure recordings, our results help to understand the tongue - mandible coupling behaviours involved in managing an in- mouth saliva bolus during the three elementary swallowing patterns identified. (bvsalud.org)
  • The parasite grips the base of the tongue tightly with its seven pairs of legs, reducing the blood supply so that the organ eventually atrophies and drops off, according to the Australian Museum . (livescience.com)
  • There have been few studies into how common tongue piercing infections are, but the warm, moist site of the piercing makes it a prime spot for bacteria to grow. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In developing countries like India, healthcare providers may focus on fighting more immediate threats to babies' health, such as infections, and as a consequence, leave tongue-tie unnoticed and untreated for years. (bbc.com)
  • The human tongue is divided into two parts, an oral part at the front and a pharyngeal part at the back. (wikipedia.org)
  • The average length of the human tongue from the oropharynx to the tip is 10 cm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The average weight of the human tongue from adult males is 99g and for adult females 79g. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tongue tie, also called ankyloglossia (ang-kuh-loe-GLOSS-ee-uh), forms before a baby is born. (childrensmn.org)
  • In 2019, when Janav was eight years old, the mystery was finally solved: he was diagnosed with a severe case of ankyloglossia, also known as tongue-tie, a genetic condition now gaining attention from medical experts and families around the world. (bbc.com)
  • Mayo Clinic, Diseases and Conditions, "Tongue Cancer. (webmd.com)
  • www.unboundmedicine.com/icd/view/ICD-10-CM/941973/all/K14___Diseases_of_tongue. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Also, use a new toothbrush after getting a new tongue piercing. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A Cochrane review has concluded that tongue cleaning is marginally and temporarily more effective than use of a toothbrush in reducing a measurable marker for halitosis, exhaled volatile sulfur compounds ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Black discoloration on the top of the tongue may occur if a person takes bismuth preparations for an upset stomach. (msdmanuals.com)