mother language
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Chan said he had been running the group to promote the mother language of many Hong Kongers for 10 years.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
Letter-writing helps me process my thoughts better than phone calls since I cannot speak their mother language.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2020
"They cannot even identify their own mother language," he adds.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2019
Hymns were initially sung in German because a lot of parishioners didn’t speak English “and because it was their mother language and they felt more comfortable,” said Siewert.
From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2018
These wailing widows, these small fatherless ones speak our mother language, utter their pain in the tongue of our own wives and children.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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