English-Italian translations for mother tongue

• madrelingua
  L' utilizzo della propria madrelingua dev' essere consentito ad ogni cittadino. It must be possible for all citizens to use their mother tongue.
  Il 90 per cento di coloro con cui abbiamo parlato non è di madrelingua araba. Ninety per cent of those to whom we have spoken do not have Arabic as their mother tongue.
  L'inglese non è la mia madrelingua; forse avremmo dovuto presentare il testo in tedesco. English is not my mother tongue, so perhaps we should have introduced the amendment in German.

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