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mother tongue

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mother tongue

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 of mother tongue

language, lingo, speech, tongue, vocabulary

Words Related to mother tongue

argot, cant, colloquial, dialect, idiolect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, slanguage, vernacular

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

coinage, modernism, neologism

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