Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

[mashers <mail@mashley.net>]

On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 06:54:49 UTC+1, Robin Powell  wrote:
> Yeah, the only verbal words they know are "mama"[1] and "hi!", both
> pretty iffily, so I can't usefully comment yet.
>
> [1]: It's interesting that we didn't actually say "mama", or
> anything much like it, to them very much at all.  I have a suspicion
> that those sounds are a human built-in in some fashion.

Yep, [mama] is usually part of reduplicative babble demonstrated by infants. [m] is a common sound in most languages (and exists in pretty much every language on the planet) so tends to be babbled a lot, and often mistaken for a word ("mama").

How much Lojban are you speaking to them? And what other languages are they hearing in their environment?

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