Motherese
The language spoken, all over the world, by mothers to their babies, before and after birth.
Motherese is the earliest language a baby hears.
A baby may be deprived of motherese through deafness or through separation from the parents.</P> 'Reading about the seemingly miraculous, if controversial, technology of cochlear implantation, I came across the word motherese.' (Fair D.
BMJ 1998;316:753)