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mother tongue; vernacular; natural language (особ. национального меньшинства); native tongue; native language (A first language (also native language, arterial language, L1, or mother tongue) is the language a person has learned from birth or speaks the best, and is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity. wiki Alexander Demidov); arterial language (omsksp); home language (The language spoken in one's home; one's native language; the mother-tongue. 1926 M. West Bilingualism i. i. 14 The Magh has Magh as his Home language. 1933 L. Bloomfield Language iii. 56 Ordinarily one language is the home language, while the other serves a wider range. 1934 Cape Argus 3 May 9/6 The only thing to do, therefore, is to define the words ‘home language' as the language best known and understood by the child. 1957 R. MacNab Emergence of Afrikaans 4/1 Some of the descendants of those great Scottish churchmen now have Afrikaans as their home language, while their cousins have English. 1958 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 21 Sept. 25/2 Applicants must be bilingual and preference will be given to those whose home language is Afrikaans. OED Alexander Demidov); own tongue (Anton lapsed into his own tongue when he was excited. LDOCE Alexander Demidov); local language (Ася Кудрявцева); the mother tongue; the native tongue |
