本文对母语和民族语提出了自己的看法,认为,对民族整体来讲,本民族语言始终是这一民族的母语,只要这一民族还在生存.但是,在民族发展过程中,会出现民族语言不一定能成为第一语言,而第一语言又不一定是该民族的母语的现象,这是由于语言的社会交际功能所决定.因此,我们必须把语言学和民族学,民族学和社会现实结合起来,把民族个体和民族整体结合起来研究才能获得完整的结论. This article puts forward my own opinion on mother tongue and national language and holds that this national language is always the mother tongue of this nation as far as the nation as a whole is concerned, as long as this nation is still living. However, during the development of the nation, Language is not necessarily the first language, but the first language is not necessarily the mother tongue of the nation, which is determined by the social communicative function of the language. Therefore, we must put linguistics and ethnology, ethnology and social In reality, combining the study of individual nationalities and the nation as a whole can achieve the complete conclusion.