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Hindi/Gujarati/Sanskrit has mata and pita.

• sn41 3y ago
  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".
• occamschainsaw 3y ago
  And mummy/pappa would be used be used colloquially in Gujarati, apart from the more formal mata/pita and other terms like ma/bapu.
  • nojvek 3y ago
    Correct. I believe forms of “ma” and “pa”/“ba” are almost universal for mother and father.