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Try languages from outside Eurasia. K'iche (Mayan): chuch, qajaw Mam (Mayan): txu, man Kaurna (Pama-Nyungan): ngangkita, yarlita Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan): ng
by AlotOfReading 3y ago
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.
- sn41 3y agoEven 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.