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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by AlotOfReading on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:33AM (#37429763)
Try languages from outside Eurasia.

K'iche (Mayan): chuch, qajaw

Mam (Mayan): txu, man

Kaurna (Pama-Nyungan): ngangkita, yarlita

Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan): ngamayi, ngaji

I doubt there are any words meaningfully conserved across all languages. That sort of thing would be the holy grail of phylolinguistics and a lot of very smart people have spent good chunks of their lives turning up nothing of the sort.

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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by sn41 on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:10AM (#37431316)
Even in Eurasia, I think there are languages like Mongolian - "eej" is mother in Mongolian. But the general premise that these are the simplest words for babies is still possible : eej is mother, aav, father.
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