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mother tongue  nounThe language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood.As a rule, interpreters are supposed to translate between their mother tongue and another language....- Many immigrants not only learn English in addition to their mother tongue, but also speak other languages.
- Krio is spoken as a mother tongue by some 250,000 people in and around Freetown and by many more Sierra Leoneans as a second language.
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