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  2. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  3. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Forms from modern Slavic languages or other Church Slavic dialects may occasionally be given in place of Old Church Slavonic. ... mother (< OE mōdor) mōdar "mother"

  4. Lists of country names in various languages - Wikipedia

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    For languages written in other writing systems, write "Romanization - native script (language)", for example "Argentine - אַרגענטינע ‎ (Yiddish)", and alphabetize it in the list by the Romanized form. Due to its size, this list has been split into four parts: List of country names in various languages (A–C)

  5. Avoidance speech - Wikipedia

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    All relations are classificatory – more people may fall into the "mother-in-law" category than just a man's wife's mother. [6] Avoidance speech styles used with taboo relatives are often called mother-in-law languages, although they are not actually separate languages but separate lexical sets with the same grammar and phonology. Typically ...

  6. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  7. Alma (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The name Alma, with its Latin origin, appears in various European languages, and has different meanings in each. [18] These varieties do not generally stray from the notion of the wise, nurturing mother, however. Arabic • Knowing, Knowledgeable, The Unbelievable but True; Aramaic • World; Azerbaijani • Apple

  8. Mother (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Mother's, a kosher food brand owned by The Manischewitz Company Fermentation starter , sometimes called a "mother", used to start the fermentation process in making various foods and drinks Kombucha mother , or SCOBY (for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), occurring in the making of kombucha

  9. Languages of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The language continuity index represents the relationship between the number of people who speak French most often at home and the number for whom French is their mother tongue. A continuity index of less than one indicates that French has more losses than gains – that more people with French as a mother tongue speak another language at home.