单词	mother tongues
释义	mother tongue noun 1 : one's native language 2 : a language from which another language derives Synonyms language lingo speech tongue vocabulary See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue Recent Examples on the Web Even though this port city is predominantly Russian speaking, the star of the show, writer and actress Elena Andreychykova, read her works mostly in Ukrainian, even though Russian is her mother tongue. Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022 In a May 2019 survey, about a third of Ukrainians named Russian as their mother tongue. Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022 Her struggles with mental health were difficult to explain to family members in their mother tongue, Hindi. Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022 Hindi was, is, and always will be our mother tongue and national language. Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022 From cell 16, Ngũgĩ returned to Gĩkũyũ, his mother tongue, and began composing his next novel, Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ (Devil on the Cross), on toilet paper because regular paper was available to prisoners only to write confessions or appeals. Dw Gibson, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022 Marathi, supposedly their mother tongue, is spoken in central and South India. NBC News, 7 Apr. 2022 Kate, who has borrowed the horse without permission from her hostess, Lady Danbury, becomes annoyed by this and swears in Hindi, her character’s mother tongue, before turning her morning ride into a sweaty horse race. ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022 In New York, a poet who fled Odessa contemplates his mother tongue. From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022 See More Word History First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 mother tongues noun plural of mother tongue as in vocabularies the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance vocabularies languages tongues idioms dialects vernacularisms speeches lingoes colloquials provincialisms parlances lingos slanguages acrolects vernaculars pidgins localisms idiolects argots slangs terminologies patois colloquialisms regionalisms cants jargons patter shibboleths coinages modernisms neologisms
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