Baby Talk (was: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde)

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:25:19 -0500 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> Czhangie is a Dadadaoist; will that do?  Or will it do do-do?
> ("do-do" aka "doo-doo" is anglophone baby talk for excrement.)
> ObConlang:  What about baby talk in our conlangs?  Anyone have any?
> --
> John Cowan                              jcowan@reutershealth.com
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Not for terms for excrement, but Rokbeigalmki has the baby-talk terms
|maba| and |paba| for "mommy" and "daddy" (respectively), as opposed to
the more adult terms |i-bardh| (female-parent) and |o-bardh|
(male-parent). |maba| and |paba| are actually the only words in the
language (at least so far, as far as i can remember) that have intrinsic
gender.


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