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Lots of baby words are shared amongst languages even if they're not related. The most obvious one I see are the variations of baba, papa, dada, etc for dad. My
by xeromal 4y ago
Lots of baby words are shared amongst languages even if they're not related. The most obvious one I see are the variations of baba, papa, dada, etc for dad.
My iraqi friends say baba and arabic is certainly not originated from latin.
- robonerd 4y agoThere are certainly some Latin loan words in Arabic; that part of the world was well within the Roman sphere of influence for a long time. For instance: the Arabic ṣirāṭ and English street both come from the Latin word strata.
- xeromal 4y agoOh, I'm sure that. I just meant as a root language I don't believe they share a common ancestor