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n. (mother tongue English)
Usage examples of "mother tongues".
People had moved starward in the hope of preserving such outmoded things as their mother tongues or constitutional government or rational-technological civilization.
While ethnic populations still retained versions of their mother tongues, many of the languages had mutated into a common tonguethough she was informed subliminally that fashions in language were much more variable over shorter periods of time.
People had moved starward in the hope of preserving such outmoded things as their mother tongues or constitutional government or rational-technological civilization….
People had moved starward in the hope of preserving such outmoded things as their mother tongues or constitutional government or rational-technological civilization .