mother tongue (redirected from mother tongues)

mother tongue

n.

1. One's native language.

2. A parent language.

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mother tongue

Noun

the language first learned by a child

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

Translations

mother tongue n → lengua materna

mother tongue mother n → langue maternelle

mother tongue mother n → Muttersprache f

mother tongue n → madrelingua