English-Finnish translations for native language

• äidinkieli
  Suomessa ruotsi on sekä äidinkieli että naapurimaan kieli. In Finland, Swedish is both a native language and a neighbouring language.
  Kuten eräs eurooppalainen historioitsija on todennut, tulevaisuuden Euroopassa isänmaa on äidinkieli. As a certain European historian said, a person' s native country in Europe in the future will be that person' s native language.

Definition of native language

• One's first language, learned in early childhood
• The language of a Native or Aboriginal people (often capitalized

Related words

• native land
• agglutinative language
• cultivation of one's native language
• explanative
• explanatively