(Mr. Achebe's native tongue is Igbo, one of Nigeria's three major languages).
Brazil's native tongue is a strange and flowery language, similar to, but distinct from Spanish, and vital to learn if you're going to get by.
Who, after all, knows what a Belgian sounds like, or even what Belgium's native tongue is? Fishman, who is originally from Philadelphia, brought up Walloon, a Belgian variety of French.
At the moment, one is assigned to you along ethnic lines, which can get complicated if you're mixed race like me or if you're Chinese but your mother's native tongue is Cantonese.
But when the channel's director, whose native tongue is Arabic, walks in, the language switches seamlessly to English, interlaced with Muslim greetings.For a new generation of British Muslims, such behaviour represents the stirrings of a new identity whose common denominator is not ethnic origin, but religion.
His native tongue is Luganda, the language of Uganda's largest ethnic group.
Studying such an array of related languages, he argues, is a necessary condition for understanding how any particular language is used; studying languages in isolation, comparing them only to one's native tongue, is merely collecting linguistic curiosities.
Basically, users can now select in which language they want to read messages, regardless the native tongue of their conversation partner(s).
Conservatism is Cruz's native tongue.
In Freud's native tongue, probably something like "Schlafschutzentraum".
The style of "Agon" used to be this company's native tongue.
