Mother tongue
Mother tongue noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
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Synonyms for Mother tongue
Native tongues and mother tongue are semantically related In some cases you can replace phrase "Native tongues" with "Mother tongue", this phrases are similar.
Native tongues
Mother tongue and native tongues are semantically related in speech topic. Sometimes you can use "Mother tongue" instead a noun phrase "Native tongues", if it concerns topics such as talk.
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- tongue and mother tongue
- tongue and native tongues
- speech and mother tongue
- speech and native tongues
- idiom and mother tongue
- idiom and native tongues
- dialect and mother tongue
- dialect and native tongues
- vernacular and mother tongue
- vernacular and native tongues
- patois and mother tongue
- patois and native tongues
- language and mother tongue
- language and native tongues
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Native tongues and Mother tongue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/native_tongues
Mother tongue & Native tongues. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/native_tongues>.
Native tongues or Mother tongue. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/native_tongues.
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