The word “mama” is universal and spoken in all places I know. What language is it? Is it a universal language for “mother”?
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The word “mama” is universal and spoken in all places I know. What language is it? Is it a universal language for “mother”?
Mama, most likely, developed from the first utterance of a infant baby suckling at its mother’s breast making sounds for satisfaction of its most dominant need, that of food or nutritional sustenance. “Ma” and “pa” are the most universal words; they are the same or similar in all known languages. Maybe babies made the words since they were easy to produce, and parents mimicked the babies in this instance, repeating what they heard the child say to encourage speech and communication.
Mama can be considered a universal language that belongs to no particular region. It’s often the first two syllabic word of a baby, alongside “papa” and “baba”. When a child starts learning how to talk, he or she starts saying “ma” and “pa” first, those seem really be true simple for the child to say at that stage, hence “mama” and “papa” depending on which a child learns to say first. A child is often not taught how to say these two words, they just grow up to say them by nature.