Mama and papa
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mama-and-papa-177-679398
title:
Mama and papa
text:
In linguistics, mama and papa are considered a special case of false cognates. In many languages of the world, sequences of sounds similar to and mean "mother" and "father", usually but not always in that order. This is thought to be a coincidence resulting from the process of early language acquisition.
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description:
In linguistics, a commonly seen sequence of sounds meaning "mother" and "father"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa
date created:
2005-01-10T23:06:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T00:31:40Z
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