Mother-tongues Sentence Examples
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He may be said to have grown up with two mother-tongues, Swedish and German; at twelve he had mastered Latin, Italian and Dutch; and he learnt subsequently to express himself in Spanish, Russian and Polish.
School, with a roll of 1000 boys and girls who speak 24 mother tongues.
In the East End of London, George Green secondary school has 800 pupils and among them over a hundred different mother tongues.
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