| Though Begum Azad has sung in other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu, it is her mother-tongue that she is most comfortable with. |
| Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English. |
| His early education was in Cingalese, his mother-tongue, but he was later educated in English and attended an English College. |
| She was like a prayer, offered up in the homeliest beauty of one's mother-tongue. |
| The Guru's followers were not required to chant Sanskrit hymns before stone idols, but sang hymns composed by the Guru himself in their mother-tongue. |
| It was to him a marvel that these people's mother-tongue was Slav. |
