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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All of the languages in the world are kind of like the farthest branches on a tree. They branch out from earlier versions of a previous language, and all of them can be traced back to a small subset of original languages that make up the trunk.

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