Definition of "native tongue" []

• Native language (noun)

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• "While the whole army watched, Calanus began chanting hymns to the Indian gods in his native tongue just as the fire was lit."
• "The poverty and stubbornness of their native tongue was not always capable of affording just equivalents for the Greek terms, for the technical words of the Platonic philosophy,"
• "Prince Heremin of Teth-Korun did not actually speak Quorulian as his native tongue at all; he spoke Teth-Korunese."