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The short answer is no-one really knows for sure. However, many animals make noises to communicate, humans, though, do this in spades - despite this, it can be seen that it's essentially animal behaviour. As an analogy, giraffes and humans both have necks but the giraffe's neck is much longer than a humans. Similarly, chimps and humans both make vocal sounds, but the human's range of sounds and meanings is much bigger than a chimps.

There is one word whose origins is generally agreed; "ma" means mother in virtually all languages. It's also the sound made by a baby opening its mouth to feed, so it seems likely that the baby associates the sound "ma" with its mother.

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