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Definition of Native language
1. Noun. The language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood.
Definition of Native language
1. Noun. The language of a Native or Aboriginal people (often capitalized). ¹
2. Noun. One's first language, learned in early childhood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Native Language
Literary usage of Native language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the English Language by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1894)
"Effect of the Conquest upon the native language.— Two general facts in regard to
language become apparent as the effect of the Conquest. ..."
2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"Or there may be text-books, grammars, dictionaries in plenty, but not in the
learner's native language; thus no one can learn Finnish without knowing ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"Ол the Educational Value of their native language to ... To ignore or exclude
the native language from the school was to prolong the use of the Gaelic ..."
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