Re: CHAT: 'mother' [was: Re: The Conlang Instinct]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, dirk elzinga wrote:

> articulate, they are among the first acquired. Hence, words for
> 'mother', 'father', etc will contain labials and alveolars. Clint just
> weighed in with Finnish and Barry with Tagalog, and both of those forms
> contain an alveolar. Shoshoni has /pia/ 'mother' (/pii/ in some
> dialects), and /appi-/ 'father'. Used as a term of address, the
> diminutive suffix /-ttsi/ is added: /piattsi/ 'Mom!'

How many of those are /ma/?