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Timeline for Word for a passed down language?

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Nov 25, 2015 at 6:03 comment added SAH Could you possibly mean "received" language?
Nov 25, 2015 at 5:51 comment added Darshan Chaudhary I think mother tongue isn't archaic. It is very commonly used in this context. Flowery ? That never harms anyone, does it ?! @Cargill
Nov 25, 2015 at 5:48 comment added Cargill I think mother-tongue is possibly okay, but in a lot of contexts could be considered a bit flowery, and borderline archaic. The word "tongue" has problems, I think.
Nov 25, 2015 at 4:50 history answered Darshan Chaudhary CC BY-SA 3.0