native language

1. 1.

   the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood

   Broaderlanguage

Questions about native language

What does native language mean?

native language means "the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood".

Is native language a common word?

native language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.