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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by nojvek on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:37AM (#37429384)
Hindi/Gujarati/Sanskrit has mata and pita.
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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by sn41 on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:07AM (#37431291)
That's mainly Sanskrit. It has various forms in most Indian languages. For example, Malayalam has "mataav^" and "pitav^"

But the commoner words for parents in Malayalam is "amma" and "appa/acha".

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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by occamschainsaw on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:10AM (#37431732)
And mummy/pappa would be used be used colloquially in Gujarati, apart from the more formal mata/pita and other terms like ma/bapu.
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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by nojvek on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:30AM (#37445171)
Correct.

I believe forms of “ma” and “pa”/“ba” are almost universal for mother and father.

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