bahasa ibu

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of bahasa (“language”) +‎ ibu (“mother”), calque of Dutch moedertaal.

Noun

bahasa ibu

  1. (linguistics) mother tongue, native language, first language, the language one first learned; the language one grew up with

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