粵典 (words.hk)Hong KongWord
第一語言；細細個第一樣學嘅語言 (mother tongue; native language)
名詞Examples
政府希望推行母語教育。
zing3 fu2 hei1 mong6 teoi1 hang4 mou5 jyu5 gaau3 juk6.
The government hopes to promote mother-tongue teaching.
母語
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mou5 jyu5
· included in 2 dictionaries粵典 (words.hk)Hong KongWord
第一語言；細細個第一樣學嘅語言 (mother tongue; native language)
名詞Examples
政府希望推行母語教育。
zing3 fu2 hei1 mong6 teoi1 hang4 mou5 jyu5 gaau3 juk6.
The government hopes to promote mother-tongue teaching.
維基辭典YueWord
Original phonetic: /mou̯¹³ jyː¹³/
01
mother tongue; native language; first language
Examples
母語干擾
first-language interference
以英語為母語的人
native English speaker
母語不代表說得就一定好。
Not all native speakers speak their first language well.
這個學生的母語是臺語。
This student is a native speaker of Taiwanese Hokkien.
02
ancestral language
Examples
據說在1990年成立全蘇東干族協會時，吉爾吉斯斯坦南方的奧什回回因爲不會講陝甘寧方言而嚎啕大哭，痛惜自己丟失了母語。
It is said that during the 1990 formation of the All-Soviet Dungan Association, Hui of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, unable to speak their Shaan-Gan-Ning dialect, cried most terribly, lamenting the loss of their native language.
03
official mandated language of one's ethnic group