mother language

Arab-My 1st mother language is Arabic; My Ethnic background is Arab.

The Bible never calls God a mother, though the mother language, as here, is used of Him many times.

By English I mean all those whose mother language is English.

It may amuse the reader to see his mother language transformed into so odd a shape that it is with difficulty he can recognise it.

Of these, the principal, or mother language, was spoken on the island of Santa Cruz.

I didn't fix the mother language, and I can't unfix it,' said the Captain coolly; 'else I'd make it pleasant.