English-Latvian translations for mother tongue

• dzimtā valoda
  Angļu valoda ir mana dzimtā valoda, tomēr es neesmu anglis: es esmu īrs. English is my mother tongue, but I am not English: I am Irish.
  Šodien es runāju itāļu valodā, kas ir valsts valoda, nevis mana dzimtā valoda. Today I am using the Italian language, which is the language of the State and not my mother tongue.
  Tomēr mēs arī uzskatām, ka pašām dalībvalstīm ir jālemj par apmēru, kādā tiek mācīta dzimtā valoda. However, we both believe that it should be the Member States that decide the extent of mother tongue teaching.

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