The first language learnt; the language one grew up with.
1But the American has lost the elementary uses of his mother tongue.
2Hay Stockard swore, harshly, in the rugged monosyllables of his mother tongue.
3They understand the Spanish language, but have not forgotten their mother tongue.
4Russian, German and Hungarian have made French seem like my mother tongue-
5Dutch meant freedom to him; his mother tongue had become a burden.
6German was his mother tongue, but he also spoke Ukrainian and Romanian.
7There can be no easy abandonment of mother , motherland or mother tongue.
8Passing recent events in rapid review, he said, speaking in his mother tongue:
9Commanding attention, in their mother tongue I addressed myself to the Mexican foreman.
10Few men in that age and region were limited to their mother tongue.
11Of the three native Americans two spoke only their mother tongue.
12The present translation is thus the fifth into Campion's mother tongue.
13Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly.
14Both writ novels, and each of them cultivated his mother tongue.
15Only a very small proportion was translated into his mother tongue.
16They promised to translate my short story into their mother tongue.
Translations for mother tongue