native tongue
Example Sentences
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The result is that these Iranian characters, when talking among themselves in their native tongue, sound awfully like Americans having a conversation in the mall or at a nearby table at a restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
For the first time in their history, the English possessed, in their own hands and in their native tongue, the entire New Testament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The Welsh Not - or Welsh Stick - was employed across schools in the 19th Century to discourage children from speaking in their native tongue.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
For me, as a third-culture kid navigating multiple identities, I always felt torn—caught between the cultural world my parents raised me in and the white Pennsylvania suburb that rejected our customs and native tongue.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025
In the weeks that followed, we learned English much more quickly because we could not use our native tongue.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
