One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next.

synoniemen: first language, maternal language.

Roget 560: language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect etc. 563.    confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie^†; pantomime etc. (signs) 550; onomatopoeia; betacism^†, mimmation, myatism^†, nunnation^†; pasigraphy^†.    lexicology, philology, glossology^†, glottology^†; linguistics, chrestomathy^†; paleology^†, paleography; comparative grammar.    literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship etc. (scholar) 492.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: moedertaal, moerstaal, stamtaal