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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/11/06/newborn-language.html - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8346058.stm

July 31, 1997 - Goo-goo, ga-ga really helps baby learn to talk (CNN)

Much More Than Babble: Baby's first words may be key to ancient origin of spoken language(Univ of Texas)

13 Sign Language Words for Baby - First Words, Second Languages
Researchers seek to find out how children learn words | LJWorld.com

Aug.30, 2002 - Out of the mouth of babes (BBC)
They have found that when a baby babbles it engages the left side of its brain,
the seat of language, which controls the right side of the face. This happens even as young as five months old.
"This discovery is the first to demonstrate left hemisphere cerebral specialisation for babies' production of language,
just like we see in adults," says Professor Ann Petitto, from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

April 21, 2000 - Baby babble 'key to language' (BBC) - May 24, 2007 - Infants Have 'Amazing Capabilities' That Adults Lack (Live Science)

Mama and Papa (Wikipedia) - Why Are 'Mama' and 'Dada' a Baby's First Words? (Live Science)

mamma (Dictionary) - same or similar in Czech, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian
Quechua = Mamai
Also same in Yiddish --- Hindi (Shabdkosh)
Hebrew - "eMA" (Milingua - Basic Hebrew dictionary, hear it!)
mama means mother in Chinese (MDBG)  - ma (Chinese Dictionary)

妈妈

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papa (Dictionary) - also same in Dutch, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Turkish
Quechua =  ta-tai = daddy
Yiddish - tate means dad / father. Which shows a resemblence to the Romanian translation. Tate = Dada = Daddy
Hebrew- "aba" (Milingua - Basic Hebrew dictionary, hear it!)
Hindi - bāpa (Shabdkosh) - translieration has both Asian and Latin / Germanic sound / spelling 

BaBa means father in Chinese. (MDBG) - Father (Chinese Dictionary)

爸爸

Not very far from PaPa

Other articles that may be of interest

Unconventional methods find a niche among teachers of English - International Herald Tribune

Historian: First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - Yahoo! News

Neanderthals speak again after 30,000 years - msnbc

Baby Sounds & Expressions (Circus of Life 2012)

baby (Dictionary) - Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovak, Turkish

Hindi - baccā Shabdkosh - http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/p