I was biased towards languages with more speakers within each subfamily, but in some cases I chose languages with fewer speakers because their word for "mother" was more divergent.Īlmost all of the base vocab (less higher vocab) in Urdu is prakrit / sanskrit derived. I didn't want people posting comments about languages appearing in the wrong parts of the tree. Romance language Romanian has maică but this was borrowed from a Slavic language. The language has a word for "mother" that derives from this root, but from a different subfamily, e.g. In some languages featured above, the more common word from "mother" takes this form. Usually it was something like "mamma", e.g. The translation for "mother" I found in that language was not derived from this PIE root. I apologize if your favorite language was not included, but it was probably for one of the following reasons: Now that it's a bit improved, I'm going to send it to my mom! Here is a new version that corrects a few of the words and clarifies that only words derived from the common PIE root are included. Thanks everyone for your comments and corrections.
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