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native tongue

noun as in mother tongue

noun as in vernacular

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Example Sentences

Should Israelis choose to seek it out, they can read it in their native tongue.

For like conversation itself, this “new native tongue is relentlessly democratic.”

The Turkish merchant repeated the price in his native tongue, and they made no progress in their deal.

Héloïse, it would seem, made extraordinary attainments, and spoke Latin as well as her native tongue.

During the evening the natives gave a Visayan dance, called in the native tongue “A Courtship.”

Spahis and Zouaves from Africa bivouacked with fair-haired men whose native tongue was German.

Spanish merchants at Antwerp caused them to be translated into their native tongue, and sent them into Spain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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