💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "First language"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mother tonguenoun | The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language. |
| maternal languagenoun | one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
| birthtonguenoun | (rare) One's first language, learnt in early childhood; native language. |
| birth-tonguenoun | Alternative form of birthtongue. [(rare) One's first language, learnt in early childhood; native language.] |
| birth tonguenoun | Alternative form of birthtongue. [(rare) One's first language, learnt in early childhood; native language.] |
| heritage languagenoun | (linguistics) A minority language that one acquires as a first language but uses and/or is exposed to less later in life in favor of a more dominant majority language. |
| father tonguenoun | The form of language acquired through education and reading, as opposed to the dialect one grows up speaking; educated or formal language. |
| mother-tonguenoun | (attributive) mother tongue |
| heritage speakernoun | (linguistics) Someone who speaks a heritage language (“a minority language that one acquires as a first language but uses and/or is exposed to less later in life”). |
| ur-languagenoun | Alternative form of urlanguage. [(linguistics) A basic or original language; proto-language.] |
| vernacularnoun | The language of a people or a national language. |
| language nestnoun | (linguistics) A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'. |
| dialectnoun | (linguistics, broad sense) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. |
| english language | English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. |
| interlinguanoun | A constructed interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951. |
| anglophonenoun | One who speaks English, generally natively. |
| linguistic landscapenoun | (linguistics) The totality of written language visible within a certain area. |
| open classnoun | (linguistics) A set of words in a given language that can readily gain new members. |
| exonormnoun | (linguistics) A standard language forged by non-native speakers. |
| englishnoun | Of or pertaining to England. |
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