mother tongue , also: father tongue
native language
first language , also: native tongue , also: arterial language , also: L1 , also: natal tongue , also: mother language

Everyone has the right to use his or her mother tongue.

Finally he heard the familiar sound of his mother tongue.

When she came to the school 14 years ago, 41 percent of the students did not have German as their mother tongue.

There is no single European mother tongue, but a great many.

It must be possible for all citizens to use their mother tongue.

Why, you even speak the mother tongue, the old language.

My command of the mother tongue is the issue here.

Within this area, the mother tongue of the children and identity development are important.

Once again the quest would begin for a mother tongue.

Around 6,000 people in the area have Portuguese as a mother tongue.

Every citizen has the right to use their own mother tongue, even at court.

English is the native language or mother tongue of most people in these countries.

It had been a long time since I heard so much of the mother tongue spoken to me at once.

Children have already gained three or four years of language experience in their mother tongue when they start school.

He wrote Latin as if it were his mother tongue.

And then, lovers of the mother tongue, where would we be?

I would also add our own mother tongue to the equation.

Citizens must have easy access to information in their own mother tongues.

They have schools where instruction is given in their mother tongues.

Oh, it's so good to talk my blessed mother tongue again!

Over the years, the Indian population has lost its mother tongue entirely.

Against language oppression, and for right to education in mother tongue.

Some specialists actually speak their language as a mother tongue.

The first of these, is the mother tongue, being written in four different scripts.

The mother tongue is second only to the target language itself as a means to learn it.

Some did not have a word for it in their native language.

And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?

The measure of a person's total control over his native language.

Smith said something that must have been in his native language.

Its name means "Place of the light" in native language.

Several other books in his native language have also been published.

But some use their native language skills while they learning English.

The students' next class, social studies, was taught in their native language.

A friend snapped back at him in their native language.

The young generation in general does not speak their native language.

She said it was a challenge to write in her native language.

Well, stick to Common or whatever your native language is.

For sixty years I have not heard a word in my native language.

However, this native language will still be present in the way they both speak and write.

You are and always were a fine public speaker in your native language.

Parents are encouraged to speak their native language at home.

He called her a name, a rude one, in their native language.

We each have a native language of our own - at least potentially.

It is spoken as a native language by seven million people.

Native language and English are both heard, often mixed together.

The native languages were used for all of the other participants.

Will the native language, culture, and religious practice be able to survive?

About 65 percent of all children said they preferred English to their parents' native language.

The British, if they want to master their native language, do have a problem.

English is the native language or mother tongue of most people in these countries.