mother tonguenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌmʌð.ə ˈtʌŋ/us/ˌmʌð.ɚ ˈtʌŋ/B2 the first language that you learn when you are a baby, rather than a language learned at school or as an adult
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- anglophone
- code switching
- diglossia
- first language
- interpret
- linguist
- lusophone
- machine translation
- modern languages
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