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The phrase "a native language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the first language that a person learns at home in childhood, often associated with their cultural identity.
Example: "Spanish is her native language, and she speaks it fluently."
Alternatives: "first language" or "mother tongue".
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Nobody in the cast has German as a native language.
Discussion groups allow partisans to swap analysis and opinion, not always typing in a native language.
Manx: became extinct during the 1900's as a native language on the Isle of Man.
But this violent desire to erase a life in a native language is only wishful thinking.
Connecticut law recognizes the value of early second language instruction in a native language.
Mr. Humala, 82, grew up in a village speaking Quechua, a native language, and considers himself copper.
This linguistic hegemony comes at the expense of the 92% of South Africans for whom English isn't a native language.
He made the blues seem like both a native language and an alien custom, something to approach with wary curiosity.
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Russia was the only country, in fact, that had a native-language app as the most popular download of all.
Flipboard is taking a double-approach to target Chinese users: there is now a native-language iPhone app (in addition to its existing Chinese iPad app).
They found smaller MMN responses for a deviant stimulus that was not a native-language vowel, even though it was acoustically more different from the standard than a non-native stimulus.
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