Examples of mother tongue in a Sentence
although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue
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Since 1994, Ethiopia’s policy has been that students should receive instruction in their mother tongue (or the dominant mother tongue of their area) in grades one through eight and shift to English instruction in ninth grade.
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Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025
The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Growing up in upstate New York, Lin rejected her Chinese heritage and resisted learning her mother tongue.
—Aditi Sriram, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
But he’s got Maye in one ear and Coughlin in the other, speaking the mother tongue of speed-the-plow.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
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Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025
The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Growing up in upstate New York, Lin rejected her Chinese heritage and resisted learning her mother tongue.
—Aditi Sriram, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
But he’s got Maye in one ear and Coughlin in the other, speaking the mother tongue of speed-the-plow.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for mother tongue
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“Mother tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20tongue. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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