SuaviloquyToday’s word

mother tongue

Webster’s 1913 has no entry under this spelling.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for mother tongue; he lists it under language.

Where he writes about it:

Vernacular, from the Latin, has the same general sense as the Saxon mother tongue, of one's native language, or that of a people; as, the Scriptures were translated into the vernacular. — from language