native tongue
Example Sentences
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For the first time in their history, the English possessed, in their own hands and in their native tongue, the entire New Testament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Alhambra was another one of L.A.’s unofficial Chinatowns where everyone still spoke their native tongue.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The Welsh Not - or Welsh Stick - was employed across schools in the 19th Century to discourage children from speaking in their native tongue.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
For me, as a third-culture kid navigating multiple identities, I always felt torn—caught between the cultural world my parents raised me in and the white Pennsylvania suburb that rejected our customs and native tongue.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025
Even Magistra Grimsby, an angular, ageless woman who taught Latin as if it were her native tongue, managed a brief, awkward hug.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
