first language

noun

1. a person's native language

Example Sentences

The couple were both first language Welsh speakers who worked in Welsh, spoke Welsh at home with their family and registered every significant life event including their wedding and the birth of their children bilingually.

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His parents didn’t speak English and taught him Italian as his first language.

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Fourteen of the women did not speak English as their first language and, the report recorded, interpreting was not used consistently in seven of those cases.

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In conversations through the messaging app Signal the fluent English-speaking criminals told the BBC English is not their first language and claimed they hired people to make the calls.

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That figure includes a wide range of different needs, including those with dyslexia; those for whom English is not their first language; and those with severe physical and intellectual disabilities.

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