native tongue

Noun

Meaning

native tongue (plural native tongues)

Synonym of native language

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

vernacular patois lingo lingua franca natural language mother tongue first language native language

Examples

According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them. Source: Internet

"After returning, I wanted to address more important questions — taboos — and the intimacy of the Afghan people, and my native tongue didn't allow for that." Source: Internet

It is the native tongue of the Tajiks, Hazaras, Aimaks, and Kizilbash. citation Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, although many Pashtuns often use Dari and some non-Pashtuns are fluent in Pashto. Source: Internet

Here we note how the Romance morphologies have been grafted on to the native tongue, providing lexical ambivalence and flexibility. Source: Internet

Five lashes of the whip was the penalty for the first offense of speaking in their native tongue. Source: Internet

For the further comfort of his foreign buyers he employed French-, German-, Italian- and Dutch-speaking clerks and answered their letters in their native tongue. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

native support native time native title native tooth native trout native wit