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

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".

                                                    Andreas

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