NOUN
- one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
How To Use mother tongue In A Sentence
- Speakers of any language often have problems pronouncing consonants or vowels which do not exist in their mother tongue. Times, Sunday Times
- I speak nothing but our mother tongue.
- Children's acquiring of the mother tongue is a long process.
- As a rule, interpreters are supposed to translate between their mother tongue and another language.
- OK, let's stop here, switch the language to mother tongue.
- The mastery of at least two languages as well as the mother tongue is essential to secure the future of British society.
- Nay truly it hath that praise that it wants not Grammar; for Grammer it might have, but it needs it not, being so easie in it selfe, and so voyd of those combersome differences of Cases, Genders, Moods, & Tenses, which I thinke was a peece of the Tower of Babilons curse {175}, that a man should be put to schoole to learn his mother tongue. Defence of Poesie
- It's a must for all those whose mother tongue is not English.
- For an important but limited beginning, Stover's text forms only an incipient explication of the African American mother tongue.
- It does not seek to elbow out mother tongues, but to coexist and continue to evolve alongside other languages. Times, Sunday Times