matrilingual

Adjective

matrilingual (not comparable)

1. (rare) Pertaining to one's mother tongue.
   • Indeed, the obstacles in the way of compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the classical language are enormous, when one reflects on the vastness of the surviving literature, the fantastic richness of the language, the diverse matrilingual origins of the writers themselves, and the time and the...1953, G[eorge] M[ichael] Wickens, “Arabic Literature”, in Eric B[ertrand] Ceadel, editor, Literatures of the East, an Appreciation (Wisdom of the East), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 25
   • What Dr. Margaret Smith refers to as Ghazăli's 'knowledge of Persian' (Al-Ghazălī, the Mystic, Luzac, 1944, p. 67) was surely a profound matrilingual cast: that he normally thought in Persian can scarcely be doubted, and it may well be that he often composed in that language and then translated...1956, The Islamic Quarterly, London: Islamic Cultural Centre, →OCLC, page 109, column 1