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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Identity (social science), archived copy as title, Sociolinguistics, All articles needing additional references
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mother tongue  maternal language  first language  mother language  native language
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One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next WordNet 3.0
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One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A first language, native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. Wikipedia
The language a human being learns from birth Wikipedia Disambiguation
Language a person was raised speaking from birth Wikidata
The first language learnt; the language one grew up with. OmegaWiki
The first language one is taught to speak; one's native language. Wiktionary
The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language. Wiktionary
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She was born and raised in France, although her first language is Portuguese because her parents are from Brazil. Wiktionary
His mother tongue is a relatively conservative dialect of Aramaic. Wiktionary
IS A
natural language
language
HAS KIND
Thai
foreign language
DIFFERENT FROM
indigenous language
FOLLOWED BY
second language
OPPOSITE OF
foreign language
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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mother tongue, maternal language, first language
Wikipedia
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first language
Wikidata
EN
first language
Wiktionary
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first language, mother tongue
OmegaWiki
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first language, mother language, mother tongue, native language, native tongue
Wikipedia Redirections
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Arterial Language, Father language, Father tongue, first-language, first languages, home language, Idiomatic language, L1 speaker, L1 speakers, mother-tongue, mother language, mother tongue, mother tongues, Mother tounge, Mothertongue, native-speaker, native languages, native speakers, primary language
Wikidata Alias
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arterial language, father tongue, first language, heritage language, L1, mother language, mother tongue, native language

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