English-Finnish translations for mother tongue

• äidinkieli
  Tämä on kuuluisa "äidinkieli ja kaksi vierasta kieltä" -malli, jonka EU:n johtajat hyväksyivät Barcelonassa vuonna 2002. That is the famous 'Mother tongue plus two' formula agreed by EU leaders in Barcelona in 2002.
  Kouluissamme äidinkieli on väistämättä virallinen kieli, ensimmäinen kieli. In our schools, it is inevitable that the mother tongue is the official language, the first language.
  Jo 46 miljoonan EU:n asukkaan äidinkieli on jokin muu kuin yksi heidän maansa pääkielistä. Already, 46 million inhabitants of the EU now have mother tongues other than their countries’ main languages.

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