mother tongue

One of my roommates muttered, wondering whether Yang was too good to speak in his mother tongue.

Victoria doesn’t allow Gouramma to see her father again, and Gouramma eventually loses the ability to speak Hindi, her mother tongue.

Like Armenians of that generation, they spoke Turkish and lacked the incentive or security to preserve their mother tongue.

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.

I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.

Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.

“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.