English-Estonian translations for mother tongue

• emakeel
  Loen artikli 152 lõike 3 ette oma emakeeles. I shall read Article 152(3) in my mother tongue.
  Rääkige oma emakeeles, kui võimalik. Speak in your mother tongue, if this is possible.
  Inglise keel on minu emakeel, kuid ma pole inglane - olen iirlane. English is my mother tongue, but I am not English: I am Irish.

Definition of mother tongue

• The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language
• The language spoken by one’s ancestors
• Informal speech, as opposed to educated language

Examples

• His mother tongue is a relatively conservative dialect of Aramaic

Related words

• Mother Shipton Moth
• don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs
• mother I’d like to fuck
• refrigerator mother
• to sell one's own grandmother
• mother-in-law's tongue
• mother-to-be
• autohemotherapy
• tomotherapy