mother tongue
noun[Cusually singular]
uk/ˌmʌð.ə ˈtʌŋ/us/ˌmʌð.ɚ ˈtʌŋ/B2
the firstlanguagethat youlearnwhen you are ababy,ratherthan alanguagelearnedatschoolor as anadult
母语；本国语；本族语Compare
first language
native speaker
See also
tongue(LANGUAGE)literary
Using other languages
- Anglocentric
- Anglocentrism
- anglophone
- bilingualism
- biliterate
- code switch
- lingo
- linguist
- native speaker
- non-native
- non-native speaker
- non-speaker
- pinyin
- polyglot
- render
- rendering
- signer
- speaker
- target language
- translator