How to pronounce tongue

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What tongue means

noun

Most people know tongue in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A language that people speak, like French

In a sentence: Grandma's first tongue was Polish, but she learned English at school.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Old English word tunge. Using tongue to mean a language is very old, more than a thousand years old in English.

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