Re: Is "ma" Proto-World? (Re: Re: Comparison of philosophical languages)

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Bryan Maloney wrote:
>
>> --- 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.
>
>
> Supposedly, the first word I learnt was _buss_ "bus".
According to my parents, the first word I learned was "light"
(apparently referring specifically to electric lights, not the
phenomenon of light itself). I'd point at street lights and say it.

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