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Cradle Language

An alternate term for Mother Tongue, but without the maternal associations. Your cradle language is your first language, the one you learn as an infant. You might learn it from your parents or from a nanny or from wolves.
Jill is multilingual, but French is her cradle language.
by Lil Blume February 11, 2015
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