Your mother tongue is the language you grew up speaking. For most people, that would be the language their mother speaks.
Because it is flat like a tongue and has a sharp tip like a snake meant to represent how "evil" the mother in law is.
Her mother tongue is 'Tulu'.
The Mother Tongue has 279 pages.
== In this case tongue means language. It is called mother tongue because it is the language spoken by the mother country in which you were born. In multilingual societies like Nigeria, Ghana and most African countries, mother tongue cannot refer to only the language spoken by the mother country. Mother tongue would mean the language the mother or caretaker passes on to the child. The assumption is that children grow under the eye of their mothers, hence mother tongue.
Sunil Gavaskar's Mother tongue is Konkani
"The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" was written by Bill Bryson in 1990.
dry/rough tongue......
Yes it is, tongue and mother tongue as a synonym.
Spanish is the mother tongue but many do speak English.
Rahul Dravid's mother tongue is Kannada.
The ISBN of The Mother Tongue is 0-380-71543-0.
English is her mother tongue. It is due to her place of birth, She was born and raised in London.