mother tongue

How To Use mother tongue In A Sentence

• Polish is my mother tongue. Times, Sunday Times
• And native speakers do less well in oral exams than those whose mother tongue is English, it is claimed. The Sun
• Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
• Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. The Times Literary Supplement
• I want to talk with people are using their mother tongue.
• Is English not your mother tongue or are you just plain illiterate? Think Progress » Clinton: If Obama Offers Peace Plan, ‘I Will Support It’
• It had little relevance to their everyday concerns and displayed contempt for the Yiddish language-their mother tongue.
• Its people are the Jebali, hardy, semi-nomadic camel-herders whose mother tongue is not Arabic but an ancient South Arabian language related to that once spoken by the Queen of Sheba. Ghost safari: spotting leopards in Oman
• Khowar, a Dardic language of Indo-Aryan group, is the mother tongue of the population in Chitral. Globalization and small languages
• If I had been a German, I could not have received [N] the mission with which I am charged -- because the messenger in the mission with which I am charged, must come, according to prophecies, from the Slavonian nation, from the country called Illyria or Illyricum, from the town, named in my mother tongue Kamnik, in Greek and Latin Lithopolis, in Secret Enemies of True Republicanism