There are a multitude of differences between countries and cultures that separate people, but the love for our mother is a universal emotion that we all share.
Our favourite word for mother is quite common in many European countries as well as in South Africa.
Mama
Mama is the word for mother in these languages:
Bulgaria, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, German, Greek, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, siSwati, Slovene, Spanish and Ukrainian.
Mamma
Mamma in Afrikaans, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Swiss German.
Ma
Ma in Afrikaans and Hindi
I love you mama in 25 languages
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