"birthtongue" meaning in English

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          "text": "And now I place them, palms up, wrong five-legged beasts with their underbellies exposed, on the desk for you who have told me, in your own broken wedding of English and your birthtongue, […]",
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          "text": "\"No problem. Neo-Gaesh, and that's Orlen's birthtongue.\"",
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          "ref": "1991, Jo Clayton, Wild Magic, page 48",
          "text": "Faan talked constantly to herself and to anyone who'd listen, mixing the Fadogur she was learning with her birthtongue in a hash of sound that gradually grew more comprehensible.",
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          "text": "Other forms of cultural non-homogeneity (birthtongue or ethnic identity, for example) have, in the generally supportive nature of the group process, tended to become not only not a problem, […]",
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          "text": "When this warning failed to cure the boys of recklessness, he made them recite the first apothegm of Tholjassan battle-dance at the start of every lesson — not just in Arquali, but also in their individual birthtongues: […]",
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