We survive on just using our mother language.

我们只用母语就可以生存了。

Yes, yes. We get by. We survive on just using our mother language.

是的，是的。我们勉强能对付过去。我们仅靠母语就生存。

I can speak Malayalam, because Malayalam is my mother's language. She's from southern part of India.

因为我妈妈用马拉雅拉姆语，所以我也会马拉雅拉姆语。我妈妈来自印度南部。

Ernesto Arias, from Bolivia, says this is all possible without loss of tradition or the mother language.

来自玻利维亚的埃内斯托·阿里亚斯表示不会丧失传统或母语。

Was the movie in your mother language or in English?

电影是用你的母语还是英语？

A study published last year found that from birth, from the moment of birth, babies cry in the accent of their mother's native language.

去年发表的一个研究说从出生那一刻开始，婴儿就会用母亲母语的口音啼哭。

A tree model for a language family starts with one language, which we call a mother language, for example, Proto-Indo-European.

一个语系的树模型从一种语言开始，我们称之为母语，例如原始印欧语。

Another issue is that languages evolve very gradually, but the tree model makes it look like they evolve over night, like there was a distinct moment in time when a mother language clearly broke off into daughter languages.

另一个问题是语言的演变非常缓慢，但树模型让它看起来像是在一夜之间演变， 就像母语在一个明显的时刻明显地分裂成子语一样。