Examples of mother tongue in a Sentence
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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This suggested, startlingly, that birds could learn a literal mother tongue while still in ovo.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The font on the album cover is a play on the Geʽez script used in Amharic, her mother tongue.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
Who among us doesn’t feel — either occasionally or always — like social codes are a chaotic second language that other people were born speaking like a mother tongue?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
And when this Medellín native greets me in his mother tongue, the melody of his voice is nearly as tender as his ballads.
—Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 23 July 2024
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The font on the album cover is a play on the Geʽez script used in Amharic, her mother tongue.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
Who among us doesn’t feel — either occasionally or always — like social codes are a chaotic second language that other people were born speaking like a mother tongue?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
And when this Medellín native greets me in his mother tongue, the melody of his voice is nearly as tender as his ballads.
—Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 23 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for mother tongue
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“Mother tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20tongue. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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