Examples of mother tongue in a Sentence
although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue
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Likewise, most of the world’s approximately 400 million native English speakers had other mother tongues in their families until relatively recently.
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Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Reading in Spanish seemed to preclude — in some instances more clearly than others — what was still unthinkable: reading in Mixe, our mother tongue.
—Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (tr. Ellen Jones), The Dial, 26 Nov. 2024
In our Romansh language, which is my mother tongue, Igniv means bird's nest, which is perfect for sharing.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
How could someone who’d left China in fifth grade have kept up her mother tongue so well?
—Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
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Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Reading in Spanish seemed to preclude — in some instances more clearly than others — what was still unthinkable: reading in Mixe, our mother tongue.
—Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (tr. Ellen Jones), The Dial, 26 Nov. 2024
In our Romansh language, which is my mother tongue, Igniv means bird's nest, which is perfect for sharing.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
How could someone who’d left China in fifth grade have kept up her mother tongue so well?
—Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Mother tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20tongue. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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