Synonyms of mother tongue

mother tongue

noun

as in language

the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication

although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue

Synonyms & Similar Words

• language
• vocabulary
• tongue
• dialect
• idiom
• speech
• terminology
• lingo
• vernacularism
• slang
• vernacular
• acrolect
• parlance
• colloquial
• jargon
• patois
• pidgin
• regionalism
• colloquialism
• localism
• argot
• patter
• coinage
• modernism
• cant
• idiolect
• shibboleth
• neologism
• provincialism
• slanguage