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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As the parent of a baby learning to speak (10 mths), I can confirm those sounds are some of the few clear ones in her vocabulary at the moment. Did a bit of googling around the topic recently and there is some variation, but in places that didn’t have a mama type variant it was often based on a sound that bub had also learned early on (ga, ba etc). The noises for dad follow similar patterns but seem to have a bit more variation and some trickier noises (ta).
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