Meanings
Noun
1. mother tongue; native language
2. protolanguage; parent language
Kanji used
mother
language
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
Examples (15 in total)
Tom's native language is French.
Italian is my mother tongue.
Spanish is her native language.
Hebrew is my mother tongue.
Portuguese is my native language.
Do you know the longest word in your language?
Many people are not able to use their first language correctly.
He was raised in the United States, but his native language is Japanese.
I speak Russian better than English because Russian is my native language.
She speaks English as if she were a native speaker.
My native language is the most beautiful gift from my mother.
She doesn't even speak her own language well, let alone French.
That foreigner spoke Japanese as if it were his native language.
Not all Americans speak English as their mother tongue.
This book is for students whose native language is not Japanese.