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mother tongue noun
n [C usually singular] Definition
the first language that you learn when you are a baby, rather than a language learned at school or as an adult
(Definition of mother tongue noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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