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mother language
noun
- a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
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Arab-My 1st mother language is Arabic; My Ethnic background is Arab.
From The Daily Beast
The Bible never calls God a mother, though the mother language, as here, is used of Him many times.
From Project Gutenberg
By English I mean all those whose mother language is English.
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It may amuse the reader to see his mother language transformed into so odd a shape that it is with difficulty he can recognise it.
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Of these, the principal, or mother language, was spoken on the island of Santa Cruz.
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I didn't fix the mother language, and I can't unfix it,' said the Captain coolly; 'else I'd make it pleasant.
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