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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In our Romansh language, which is my mother tongue, Igniv means bird's nest, which is perfect for sharing.
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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
Help with that one comes from Emery and his coaching staff, who have been asked by Onana to address him in their mother tongue.
—Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
This suggested, startlingly, that birds could learn a literal mother tongue while still in ovo.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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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
Help with that one comes from Emery and his coaching staff, who have been asked by Onana to address him in their mother tongue.
—Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
This suggested, startlingly, that birds could learn a literal mother tongue while still in ovo.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Mother tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20tongue. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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