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Translate mother tongue from English to French

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mother tongue:
- langue maternelle
Wiktionary:
- mother tongue → langue maternelle
- mother tongue → langue maternelle

English

Detailed Translations for mother tongue from English to French

mother tongue:

mother tongue [the ~] nomen

the mother tongue
la langue maternelle
- langue maternelle [la ~] nomen

Translation Matrix for mother tongue:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
langue maternelle	mother tongue	native language; native tongue
-	first language; maternal language

Synonyms for "mother tongue":

maternal language; first language; natural language; tongue

Related Definitions for "mother tongue":

one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next¹

Wiktionary Translations for mother tongue:

mother tongue

noun

one's native tongue
- mother tongue → langue maternelle

mother tongue

noun

linguistique|fr Désigne la premier langue qu’un enfant apprendre auprès d’un membre ou non de sa famille, principalement sa mère.
- langue maternelle → mother tongue; first language; native language

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• mother tongue	→ langue maternelle	↔ moedertaal — taalkunde\|nld taal die tijdens de jeugd, zonder formeel taalonderwijs, wordt verworven
• mother tongue	→ langue maternelle	↔ Erstsprache — Linguistik: diejenige Sprache, die ein Kind als erste/wichtigste Sprache erlernt und verwendet, in den meisten Fällen die Muttersprache
• mother tongue	→ langue maternelle	↔ Muttersprache — Sprache, die ein Kind von seinen Eltern erlernt und in der es denkt

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