Mother tongue
Mother tongue noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
Usage example: although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue
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Synonyms for Mother tongue
Pidgin and mother tongue are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pidgin" instead a noun phrase "Mother tongue".
Pidgin
Pidgin noun - An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages.
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Synonyms for Pidgin
Mother tongue and pidgin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mother tongue" instead a noun "Pidgin".
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Related pairs
- tongue and mother tongue
- tongue and pidgin
- speech and mother tongue
- speech and pidgin
- idiom and mother tongue
- idiom and pidgin
- dialect and mother tongue
- dialect and pidgin
- vernacular and mother tongue
- vernacular and pidgin
- patois and mother tongue
- patois and pidgin
- language and mother tongue
- language and pidgin
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Pidgin and Mother tongue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/pidgin
Mother tongue & Pidgin. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/pidgin>.
Pidgin or Mother tongue. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mother_tongue/pidgin.
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