mother tongue

mother tongue

n.1. One's native language.2. A parent language.

mother tongue

n 1. (Linguistics) the language first learned by a child 2. (Linguistics) a language from which another has evolved

moth′er tongue

n. the language first learned by a person; native language.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mother tongue - one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the nextfirst language, maternal languagenatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Translations

母语

mother tongue

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