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What (who) is mother tongue - definition

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

mother tongue

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

mother tongue

¦ noun a person's native language.

mother-tongue

see mother tongue

Wikipedia

First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers to the language or dialect of one's ethnic group rather than one's first language.

The first language of a child is part of that child's personal, social and cultural identity. Another impact of the first language is that it brings about the reflection and learning of successful social patterns of acting and speaking. Research suggests that while a non-native speaker may develop fluency in a targeted language after about two years of immersion, it can take between five and seven years for that child to be on the same working level as their native speaking counterparts.

On 17 November 1999, UNESCO designated 21 February as International Mother Language Day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First language

Examples of use of mother tongue

1. But studies show that children learn foreign languages better if they have a sound mother tongue, not on the basis of obliterating their mother tongue.

2. "They are fluent in English and their mother tongue.

3. He scratched out the word Mother–tongue from the textbook "Mother–tongue Reader" and wrote in its place the word Japanese.

4. The Mother–tongue Reader became the Japanese Reader.

5. Ma, whose mother tongue is Mandarin, speaks fluent English.