Words for Mother and Father in Different Languages Around the World #2234486 (License: Personal Use)

This image presents a bilingual vocabulary table featuring native terms for “mother” and “father” in over 20 languages, spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. Each entry includes the language name and region (e.g., Kikuyu (east Africa), Quechua (Ecuador)), highlighting linguistic diversity and cultural variation in kinship terminology. The list reveals patterns like reduplication (e.g., “mama”, “baba”) and phonetic shifts across dialects.

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