1. Babies Gave Them Their Name
In English she’s mom; in Mandarin Chinese, mama. To Spanish kids, she’s mama too, though with slightly different accents on the syllables. “Mom” is translated as mamma in Iceland, ma in punjabi, em in Hebrew and me in Vietnamese. Read more at LiveScience:
http://www.livescience.com/20256-5-amazing-facts-motherhood.html