u/SiriuslySearching

As far as I’m aware almost all languages have a variation of the ‘m’ sound for the word ‘mother’ in a language. Eg. Mother/Maman/amma/omma etc.

But in the Marathi language, the word for mother is ‘Aai’ which is devoid of the mm sound.

Does anyone know how this evolved to be? Are there other languages that don’t have the mm sound in their word for ‘mother’.

Thanks!