why so many languages, even those seemingly completely unrelated, tend to use variations of “mama” and “papa” as a shorthand reference to your parents?

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why so many languages, even those seemingly completely unrelated, tend to use variations of “mama” and “papa” as a shorthand reference to your parents?

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A lot of languages share a common root in proto-indo-european. Basically a bunch of cavemen made up a writing system and most of the commonly spoken languages are either descended from that language or have been heavily influenced by ones that were.

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