mother tongue

Etymology
From, , equivalent to 🇰🇲. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language.
 * 2) The language spoken by one’s ancestors.
 * 3) The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
 * 4) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) The language spoken by one’s ancestors.
 * 2) The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
 * 3) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) The language spoken by one’s ancestors.
 * 2) The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
 * 3) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
 * 2) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
 * 1) Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: moedertaal, huistaal
 * Albanian: gjuhë e nënës, gjuhë amtare
 * Arabic: لُغَة أُمّ, لُغَة قَوْمِيَّة, لُغَة أُولَى
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: llingua materna
 * Azerbaijani: ana dili
 * Arabic: آنا دیلی
 * Bashkir: туған тел
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ро́дная мо́ва
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ро́ден ези́к, ма́йчин ези́к
 * Burmese: မိခင်ဘာသာစကား, အမိဘာသာစကား
 * Carpathian Rusyn: материньскый язык
 * Catalan:, llengua nativa
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 母語
 * Hakka: 阿姆話
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: mammyeth, yeth vamm
 * Crimean Tatar: ana tili
 * Czech:, rodný jazyk,
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan: төрөөбүт тыл
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: hejmlingvo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: marilenghe
 * Galician: lingua materna
 * Georgian: მშობლიური ენა, დედაენა
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Mueterspraach
 * Greek: μητρική γλώσσα
 * Gujarati: માતૃભાષા
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मादरी ज़बान
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Muttersproch
 * Icelandic: móðurmál
 * Ido: matrala linguo
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: máthairtheanga, teanga dhúchais
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 自国語
 * Kalmyk: төрскн келн
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: rodnô mòwa
 * Kazakh: ана тілі
 * Khmer: ភាសាកំណើត
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: zimanê maderî, ,
 * Kyrgyz: эне тили
 * Lao: ​ພາສາແມ່
 * Latvian: dzimtā valoda
 * Lezgi: дидед чӏал
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: jemākēļ
 * Low German: Modersprak, Modersprake, Moodersprak, Muddersprak
 * Middle Low German: Mōdersprāke
 * Macedonian: ма́јчин ја́зик
 * Malay:
 * Manx: çhengey ny mayrey
 * Maori: reo ūkaipō
 * Marathi: मातृभाषा, मायबोली
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: төрөлх хэл, эх хэл
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: morsmål
 * Occitan: lenguo maire
 * Pashto: مورنۍ ژبه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, língua nativa
 * Punjabi: ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ
 * Shahmukhi: ماں بولِی, مات بولِی
 * Romanian:, limbă nativă,
 * Russian:, родна́я речь
 * Scots: mither tongue
 * Scottish Gaelic: cànan màthaireil, cainnt mhàthaireil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: матерњи језик, материњи језик, матерински језик
 * Roman: maternji jezik, materinji jezik, materinski jezik
 * Shor: туған тили
 * Sinhalese: මවු බස
 * Slovak: materinský jazyk, rodný jazyk, materinská reč
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: maśeršćina
 * Upper Sorbian:, maćerna rěč
 * Spanish:, lengua nativa, lengua natal
 * Swahili: lugha ya mama
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: inang-wika, katutubong wika, inang wika
 * Tajik: забони модарӣ
 * Tamil:, தாய் மொழி
 * Tatar: туган тел,
 * Telugu:, మాతృ భాష
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ቋንቋ ኣደ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ene dili
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مادری زبان
 * Uyghur:, ئانا تىلى
 * Uzbek: ona tili
 * Vietnamese:, ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ, ngôn ngữ đầu tiên
 * Volapük: motapük,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: mamiaith
 * Yiddish: מאַמע־לשון, מוטער־שפּראַך
 * Zhuang: vahcoj


 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Maori:
 * Old English:
 * Telugu: