How do babies in your country call their mother? E.g. In the Netherlands it is M

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   Moxylposted 11 years ago

   How do babies in your country call their mother? E.g. In the Netherlands it is Mama.
   
   I'm really interested to know the answers from different parts of the world

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   Tolovajposted 11 years ago

   I's mama (no capitalization) in Slovenia too:)
   
   I think majority of languages in Europe have similar root for this important word.

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   Janani Shankarposted 11 years ago

   In India,
   Tamilians call Amma,
   Hindustani's call Mathaji,
   and in other parts of India people started to truncate the word as Ma

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 11 years ago

   I think in the US it is most often "Mommie" for the first few years.  It certainly changes based on region and culture.  I'll be interested to hear answers from countries around the world.  What we call Grandmothers is much more varied.  I'm "Granny" to my grandkids because their other Grandmother was already "Grandma" to her other grandchildren.

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      Moxylposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Same in Hong Kong, where babies usually start with saying mami.

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   wychicposted 11 years ago

   I'm in Wyoming in the US, and it's most often "mom" or "mommy" here. It seems that "mama" is fairly common in the eastern parts of the country -- I know several people from the southeast who refer to their mother as "mama," and my own husband is from the northeast (his family was from Russia). He has taught our kids to call me Mama, just as he referred to his mother.

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   liesl5858posted 11 years ago

   In my country, the Philippines, we call our mother Mama, Nanay, Mommy, Nanang or Inay. Nanay, Nanang and Inay is how we call our mother in our own language which is Tagalog and our dialect as well.
   We call our grandmother Lola.

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      Moxylposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting! Nanang is very close to the word 'milk' in Chinese, where mother is the original source of milk!

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   savvydatingposted 11 years ago

   In the U.S., born and bred, it's "Mommy," all the way. Once the children get older, they usually switch to Mom, unless their from the South, in which case they generally say, Mama.
   One time, my son called me Mamasita, just to be funny. I liked it, but it also cracked me up.

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