Caitlin's Vocabularies

Here are some Caitlin's vocabularies and phrases (and how she says them):


Airplane - "ipis"
Apple - "apot"
Ate - "atee"
Babay - "babatch"
Banana - "bata" or "batata"
Barney (from a kids' TV series of the same title) - "ba-ty"
Bubbles - "batus"
Cinderella - "pila"
Cockroach/Ipis - "ipis"
Elephant - "epa'tatat"
Fish - "pish"
Get - "git"

Good night - "goodnatch"

Hat - "at"
Help - "eelp"
HOt - "at"

Horse - "oos"

I love you - "bakukuh"

Itay - "itat"

Jaq (from the 1950 Walt Disney Cinderella character) - "kakak"

Lola - "owa" or "wa"

Mary Poppins (from the movie of the same title) - "pa-tis"

Nanay - "nanan"

Nemo (from the main character of "Finding Nemo" movie) - "mono"

No - "nooooh"

No more - "monon"

Opo - "opu"

Please - "pis"

Popcorn - "pakmh"

Shoes - "toosh"

Tatay - "tatat"

Thank you - "takmh"

Umbrella - "pila"
Yes - "yis"
Yoghurt - "otat"


For the rest that she can't say properly, she simply says "umh". How's that for effective communication??


Note: My wife who didn't need to report to the office for 3 months, had enough time to learn Caitlin's own language. Thus, she's currently the family's interpreter. Now I understand why those who are close to their kids would develop a second language in the process. Me - Caitlin adjusts and she just shows me what she wants to have or do.