Meaning of home language | Babel Free

Definitions

The main language spoken in a home.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Pennsylvania-German patois, a gradual production of this mixture, is still the home language by the majority of firesides in many townships of Montgomery county, […]”

“They are in the Tamil language, which is widely used as the home language throughout the Madras Presidency, and by all of the Tamils in the Island of Ceylon.”

“In addition, cognitive skills such as thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and word choice, which the child uses in learning his home language, are the same skills needed to learn English, thus paving the way for later school success.”

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