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don't mean to nitpick but not sure where you're getting Japanese from, in Japanese mama is Okaasan or Haha and Otousan or Chichi for dada. (I don't know the evo
by bedobi 3y ago
don't mean to nitpick but not sure where you're getting Japanese from, in Japanese mama is Okaasan or Haha and Otousan or Chichi for dada. (I don't know the evolution of either of the words, it may be that they were closer to mama and dada in the past or distant past, but contemporar Japanese doesn't fit the pattern)
- grose 3y agoMama and papa are used in Japan too. See constructions like “mama-tomo” (“mom friends”) and “papa-katsu” (“sugar daddy”).
- mikepavone 3y agoThese are recent loanwords though which the OP considered uninteresting
- midoridensha 3y agoThose are loanwords, very recently borrowed from English, like so many other recent loanwords. That's what they're always written in katakana.