These terms use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabials like /m/, /p/,

and
/b/, and the open vowel /a/. They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by
babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with
themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon. Thus, there is no
need to ascribe to common ancestry the similarities of !Kung ba, Aramaic abba, Mandarin Chinese
bàba, and Persian baba (all "father"); or Navajo amá, Mandarin Chinese māma, Swahili mama,
Quechua mama, and Polish mama (all "mother"). For the same reason, some scientists believe
that 'mama' and 'papa' were among the first words that humans spoke.[5] However, there is
nothing of motherhood or fatherhood inherent in the sounds.

The linguist Roman Jakobson hypothesized that the nasal sound in "mama" comes from the nasal
murmur that babies produce when breastfeeding:

Bdkfnfnfmfkf kdkdkkdfn

Jdjfkdndndndkdndndnd