Eli5 why the words for mom and dad are so similar in a wide variety of languages

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Eli5 why the words for mom and dad are so similar in a wide variety of languages

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It’s basically because babies have an easier time saying certain sounds like ma, pa, da which then become words like mama, dada, papa which turn into for example Swedish mamma, French papa and English daddy

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