MATERNAL LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

first language; maternal language; mother tongue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("maternal language" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

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