--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawier@H...> wrote:
> That's another word that's common in many languages for "mother". (But
> |mama| is "father" in Georgian!) That is probably because "ma" might
be the
> easiest syllable to utter for an infant beginning to learn to speak.
From my experience, "abba" and "adda" come before "mama". Drives my
wife nuts when all three of the kids were going
"dadadadadadadadadada!" long before they tried anything that sounded
like "mama".
I also have a theory that all toddlers speak Klingon.