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maternal language
DEFINITIONS OF:
maternal language
1
n
one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
Synonyms:
first language
,
mother tongue
Type of:
natural language
,
tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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