Frequency rank: 49,017. – 50,149.
- mother tongue; native language
- protolanguage; parent languagelinguisticssee also 祖語【そご】
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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She speaks English as if she were a native speaker.
She doesn't even speak her own language well, let alone French.
He was raised in the States, but his mother tongue is Japanese.
To hear him speak English, you would take him for a native.
Brent is an American, but he speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.
The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.
The foreigner spoke Japanese as if it were her mother tongue.
Not all Americans speak English as their mother tongue.