why the synonyms for mother in almost all the languages in the world start with letter 'M'?

Answer 1

Dear Harsh - I,

is a common word produced by babies, because the sound is one of the first sounds a baby starts producing when he or she reaches the stage when babies start blabbering.

In each culture, the people around the baby will make the baby understand which sounds are permissible sounds in the surrounding language, and which are not. is a very common, almost universal sound.

A word with one or two s are very commonly found all over the world. In many languages, it means 'mother', but it's not always the case: 'mama' means 'father' in Georgian and 'food' in Japanese baby languages if I'm not wrong.

This is just how adults interpret baby language.

Notice how is also an easy sound combination to produce for the baby and how it means 'urine' in some languages.

All in all, is one of the first consonants for a baby to make when she or he reaches the blabbering stage. It's the adults that reinforce and put those sound combinations into the meaning of 'mother' for some languages.

Answer 2

Synonyms For Mother

Answer 3

In telugu ( my native language ) we call mother as amma, in hindi ma. So the answer is that almost all languages in the world contain the letter M in the synonyms of mother.

Answer 4

The premise of the question is incorrect; whilst it is true to say that the word for mother in most IndoEuropean languages begins with the sound "m"; in most non-indoeuropean languages - languages not in the same language group as most European langugaes - it does not - and remember that this constitutes the vast majority of world languages:

Here are some examples of the word of "mother" in some non-indoeuropean:
Finnish: aiti/äitiö
Turkish: anne/ana
Basque: ama
Arabic: Umm
Hungarian: anya
Estonian: ema

One notable exception: in Quechua, a South American aboriginal language and the language of the Incas, mother is "mama". This is not as a result of Spanish Influence as expressions much older than Spanish presence in Perú contain the word: e.g. "Pacha mama" = "mother earth."

Answer 5

A significant amount of today's dominant languages have a similar origin. This language is known as proto-Indo-European or PIE. The orignal PIE languages spread rapidly throughout Europe & much of Asia from around 2500-5000 BC. Again the PIE derived languages were spread by the European colonists(invaders?). I suspect that hundreds of other non PIE languages don't have M as the starting letter for mother, but the ones we are familiar with do. The PIE word for mother is thought to be 'mater'. Hope it helps.

Answer 6

bcuz the word easiest to speak is mm....... and the baby`s first word is also mm..... and the most caring person for the baby is his mother another thing in the childhood the things he require most are is basic needs are also taught as mm..... . although they are called by some other name like mam for water as he grows up he learn the things but he never stop saying the mother bcuz it is the 1st word he learnt to be a human

Answer 7

The first sound that comes out from a baby mouth is M

Answer 8

"Ha Ha." I am not laughing. That is "mother" in Japanese.
"Omma" or "O-mmo-ni" is mother in Korean.

I don't know where you get your data, but I'm guessing you're limiting your statement to "western" languages. Languages with similar roots will have similar words. Languages are influenced by neighboring languages.

Answer 9

Mama

Answer 10

I guess because it's the easiest sound for the baby to utter.
In fact, my father had throat cancer and had his vocal chords removed. He had to learn to speak again. The first word he spoke was ...mama.