Synonyms of mother tongues

mother tongues

noun

plural of mother tongue

as in vocabularies

the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication

although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vocabularies
• tongues
• languages
• idioms
• dialects
• lingoes
• speeches
• provincialisms
• vernacularisms
• colloquials
• lingos
• parlances
• vernaculars
• slanguages
• pidgins
• acrolects
• terminologies
• idiolects
• localisms
• slangs
• patois
• argots
• colloquialisms
• cants
• jargons
• regionalisms
• patter
• shibboleths
• coinages
• neologisms
• modernisms