Muttersprache

Bedeutung

1. (feminine) mother tongue; native language
2. (feminine,humorous,often) the language one has learnt from one’s mother (chiefly in the case of two parents with different languages)
3. (archaic,feminine,rare) ancestor language, parent language (language from which another is derived)

Geschlecht

♀️ Feminin

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈmʊtɐˌʃpʁaːxə/

Etymologie

Loan translation and/or phonetic adaptation of Middle Low German môdersprâke, itself possibly a loan translation of Latin lingua materna. Analyzable as Mutter (“mother”) + Sprache (“language”).

Sätze

Für zweihundertfünfzehn Millionen Sprecher ist Bengalisch die Muttersprache .

Bengali is the mother tongue of two hundred and fifteen million speakers.

Andere Berber haben ihre Muttersprache im Lauf der Jahrhunderte verloren und sprechen Maghreb-arabische Dialekte .

Other Berbers have lost their native language over the centuries and speak Maghreb Arabic dialects.