mother tongue vs natural language

mother tongue and natural language both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mother tongue	Yes	No	No	No
natural language	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, natural language is a hypernym of mother tongue; that is, natural language is a word with a broader meaning than mother tongue:

mother tongue: one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
natural language: a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Other hypernyms of mother tongue include tongue.

mother tongue (noun)	natural language (noun)
one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next	a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

mother tongue vs natural language

mother tongue and natural language both are nouns.

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