From both my (admittedly introductory) study of linguistics and my own experience with my 14 month old, it seems that the early words of children are guided chiefly by #1 what the children themselves find most urgent and interesting to communicate, #2 what their unskilled and immature muscles find possible to form, and #3 starting with nouns and
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There are three syllables in the Russian version of the word so It's rather difficult word to a young toddler. When other parents heard how the nephew pronounced it on playgrounds (they didn't know that it was almost the only word he knew) they melted, "The little kid gives a really good speech" :))
The stereotypical first/early words for babies and toddlers are мама (mom), папа (dad), да|нет (yes|no), дай (give), пить (drink).
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(I suspect I must have really pronounced it something more like "play" or even "pay," because that seems an awfully hard combination of sounds for a small child to make, but...)
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Regardless, early words for English? Water, Mama, Dada, no, want. Children who use pacifiers or blankets often have pet names for them. My first word, though, was duck, and my sister's was sock.
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