How to pronounce “father tongue”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A separate language for expressing ideas, as opposed to the vernacular (mother tongue) which is employed for everyday speech.
• The form of language acquired through education and reading, as opposed to the dialect one grows up speaking; educated or formal language.
• A second language that one speaks fluently.
• The language spoken by one's father, when it differs from that spoken by one's mother.

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