maternal language in a sentence

Examples

1. "Teachers that speak the maternal languages of the children in rural schools will be allowed to educate the youngest children, " said Assistant Education Minister Demetrio Cojti, who authored the measures.
2. In South Tyrol, the majority language is German ( 69 % of the population ), although in the capital city Bolzano 73 % of the population speaks Italian as its maternal language due to internal immigration from other regions of Italy.
3. "' 1880 "' Or
   tie had 1, 086 houses and 5, 451 inhabitants : 2, 312 Romanians, 1, 427 Germans, 1, 227 Hungarians, 16 Slovaks, 8 Serbs, 176 other nationalities, 138 foreigners and 147 of unknown maternal language ( a category that included Gypsies ); 2, 030 Eastern Orthodox, 1, 002 Roman Catholic, 964 Lutheran, 769 Calvinist, 523 Eastern Rite, 163 Jewish.