In February of 2002, a discussion came up on the biling-fam
mailing list about how it can be difficult to acquire words
specific to babies in a non-native language. As a result
of that thread, this is a collection of lists in various
languages intended to help with that problem.
These pages are very rough right now, I'm just putting them
in place and will format them and try to fix accents later.
Suggestions, corrections, additions are welcome; remove spaces
and send email to biling-fam @ fluxcapacitor . net.
The biling-fam list compiled similar information in August 1998.
Here is their
list of words to include, in case
it helps anyone compiling a list. As I locate the original
lists from that time frame, I am putting them here.
These lists are a collective effort of the
Bilingual Families mailing list (biling-fam@nethelp.no) and are
not for commercial use.
Multilingual Baby Vocabulary Lists
English
French
German (the 1998 list plus comments from related threads)
German - Alex Wilms' 2002 list (might look odd in Netscape, I hope to edit it soon)
Janice Amrani's 2005 Hebrew list
Russian in Word Perfect format, or check the bilingual
supplies page for an html version of the same list if you can't open
Word Perfect docs
Spanish, or if you have trouble viewing the
accents, try this one, which uses e' for the
accented e (for example)
Carolina Roselló's 2005 European Spanish lists: Part
1, Part 2 - added 4/4/05 (Word
doc format, I will try to make html versions as time allows)
Swedish (animal sounds only, Anders was working on a list but he's gone missing)
Phrases Lists
English (also available as .doc)
French (non-native, corresponding to English phrases)
Additional Resources
Note that I have not yet verified any links in the documents below.
for Dutch (very short)
for English
for French
for German
Russian is lost...
for Spanish
...and in general