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Definition of Maternal language
1. Noun. One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternal Language
Literary usage of Maternal language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... WRITING IN THE VULGAR AND maternal language (From The Monarchy,1 1553) Gentle
redar, have at me na despite, Thinking that I presumptuously pretend, But, ..."
2. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1886)
"... his maternal language was the Carthaginian.1 Two centuries later, in the
diocese of S. Augustine, the greatest part of the country people knew no other ..."
3. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"of children whose maternal language was Flemish.1 This measure, the Belgians
allege, was designed to set the Flemish population against the Walloon element ..."
4. Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870 by Barry Cerf (1919)
"In 1895, 159532 declared their maternal language to be French; ... Official figures
for the number of inhabitants whose maternal language is French are as ..."
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