mother tongue
LANGUAGE A PERSON WAS RAISED SPEAKING FROM BIRTH
Native language; Native speaker; Native speakers; Native-speaker; Mother language; Mother-tongue; Mother tounge; Native Language; Mother tongue; Arterial Language; Mothertongue; Primary language; Idiomatic language; Mother tongues; Home language; First-language; First languages; Father language; Arterial tongue; Native languages; L1 speaker
also mother-tongue
(mother tongues)
Your mother tongue is the language that you learn from your parents when you are a baby.
= native tongue
N-COUNT: oft poss N