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first language
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(Linguistics) a person's native language
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Noun1.first language - one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
maternal language, mother tongue
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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first language n → prima lingua
first language n → prima lingua


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It was poetry that inculcated laws and maxims; it was by the harmony of its lines that traditions were handed down at a time when memory had to supply the place of writing; and it was the first language of wisdom and of inspiration.
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