which is the very first word that a toddler can speak, is it ba....ba...ba....?

Answer 1

My son's very first word was very clearly mama. His dad tried for hours to get him to say da da but sam would just grin at him & say MAMA!! He KNEW he was teasing his dad - & I loved it! My daughter said mama before she said dada, too. What can I say? they love their mama!!!

Answer 2

It varies. Believe it or not, I once saw a child say "I love you" (or what sounded exactly like it) at the age of about 9 months.

We ought to note, that the child's "first words" may not actually be consciously referential; that is, the child might not be referring to anything in particular. But as doting parents, we will tend to assume that the child knows what it is doing. Very likely, it is just playing with sounds (it likes to hear the sound of its own voice). So, while the child has not produced any term which has an explicit 'sense' or 'reference' for the child, the parents will assume that it does, and will encourage this behavior. The child reacts positively to this, and does gradually develop the ability to make meaningful communications. For the child, 'mama' and 'papa' or 'dada' may all mean the same thing at first, except that they are different sounds. So, the child may begin to feel the distinction between these sounds, and therein, discover that each can be used to communicate a different meaning.

Thus it is more accurate to ask what are the first sounds that a child can articulate verbally: In general, labials (phonemes pronounced with the lips i.e., ba, ma) or palatels (roof of the mouth; i.e., ja, da, ta, na) or guterals (the throat; i.e., ka, ga) are going to be among the easiest phonemes to pronounce (sounds which do not require teeth). So something using those phonemes will likely be the first to usher forth from a child's mouth. Interestingly, the first phonemes almost invariably use the vowel 'a', (pronouced like 'u' in 'cut'). Other vowels apparently require more muscle control to articulate.

Anyways, I hope the above has been helpful.

Answer 3

There is no way of telling that depends on the child and when they ba ba ba and da da da it isn't talking its called cooing.

Answer 4

Statistically it is Da Da since the "D" sound is easiest for them to start with. It usually makes Dads feel very proud too.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Ba is not a word, unless you're a sheep.

Answer 7

it just depends on the toddler some are ma ma some and da da and they learn no pretty quick

Answer 8

Da Da Da

Answer 9

its usually mama...and luckily that is close to mother in many languages..

Its the ease of the sound...and the way the baby hears it...he is just repeating the world back as he registers it..

So its ma ma ma...
Grin!!!

Answer 10

Ma is the most common