| 释义 |
home language
[home n.1 B. 1 and 3.]
The language spoken in one's home; one's native language; the mother-tongue.
1926M. West Bilingualism i. i. 14 The Magh has Magh as his Home language. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iii. 56 Ordinarily one language is the home language, while the other serves a wider range. 1934Cape 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. 1957R. 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. 1958Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 21 Sept. 25/2 Applicants must be bilingual and preference will be given to those whose home language is Afrikaans. |