Malkias’s vocabulary

This is a list of the words that Malkias spontaneously uses in an appropriate context. There are many more words he says but only in repeating them soon after he’s heard us use them:

Words up to November 19, 2009.

ball
bath
beep
beh-bee (belly button)
bye
cheese (when having photographs taken)
daddy
down
eye
here
hi
help me
honey (as a term of endearment)
hot
light
me
miaow
mine
muh-muh (milk) – but this and mommy are almost interchangeable
mommy
roll
(a)round
see
tea
there
uh-oh!
up
wow!
yeah

I think that, like Maia, he has a good vocabulary for his age. He was 15 months when we started putting this list together. By the time Maia reached her second birthday she used well over 200 words. It actually became impossible for us to track her word use because her vocabulary was so large.

Words added after November 19, 2009.

achoo! [Feb 17, 2010]
again [May 23, 2010]
all done [Mar 3, 2010]
all gone [before May 19, 2010]
apple [Dec 10, 2009]
apple juice [Apr 10, 2010]
apple sauce [Apr 8, 2010]
arm [May 14, 2010]
baa! [Dec 4, 2009]
baby [Dec 16, 2009]
bacon [Mar 17, 2010]
back [Apr 6, 2010]
backpack [Dec 4, 2009]
bag [May 19, 2010]
bagel [May 9, 2010]
balloon [Feb 1, 2010]
Barney [Feb 9, 2010]
bathroom [Apr 15, 2010]
bed [Apr 8, 2010]
Bert [May 12, 2010]
bib [Apr 16, 2010]
big [Dec 30, 2009]
birdie [Feb 10, 2010] & bird [Mar 8, 2010]
bike [Mar 11, 2010]
bite [Feb 18, 2010]
bits [May 25, 2010]
boo-boo [Mar 19, 2010]
book [Jan 3, 2010]
boppy (a kind of cushion) [Nov 22, 2009]
bottle [Apr 9, 2010]
block (noun) [Dec 16, 2009]
blocked [Apr 29, 2010]
boo-boo [before May 8, 2010]
boot [Feb 15, 2010]
bounce [Apr 21, 2010]
box [May 6, 2010]
bread [Jan 23, 2010]
bright [Feb 14, 2010]
broccoli [May 10, 2010]
bubbles [Apr 16, 2010]
bum-bum [May 25, 2010]
bump (verb) [Apr 29, 2010]
bus [Dec 16, 2009]
cake [Apr 9, 2010]
cap (bottle) [Apr 4, 2010]
car [Nov 24, 2009]
cart [Dec 7, 2009]
catch [May 9, 2010]
CD [Jan 5, 2010]
chair [Apr 23, 2010]
change [Jan 5, 2010]
cheese [May 11, 2010]
choo-choo [Jan 24, 2010]
cluck [Mar 30, 2010]
coffee [Jan 17, 2010]
come [May 23, 2010]
cook [Mar 23, 2010]
cookie [Mar 14, 2010]
couch [May 2, 2010]
Count (Sesame St. Character) [Apr 16, 2010]
cow [Jan 5, 2010]
cracked [Apr 29, 2010]
cracker [Nov 21, 2009]
cup [Dec 23, 2009]
daida (grandad) [Feb 13, 2010]
decaf [before May 2, 2010]
did (“I did it”) [Mar 4, 2010]
digger [May 7, 2010]
dirty [Apr 6, 2010]
dolly [before May 14, 2010]
draw [May 10, 2010]
drink [Jan 10, 2010]
drive [Mar 4, 2010]
duck [Jan 18, 2010]
ear [Feb 20, 2010]
eat [Jan 13, 2010]
eggs [Apr 29, 2010]
elephant [Mar 21, 2010]
Ernie [May 13, 2010]
Eve [before May 13, 2010]
excuse me [May 5, 2010]
Elmo [Apr 13, 2010]
Emily [Apr 16, 2010]
Eric [Apr 26, 2010]
Eve [Apr 26, 2010]
excuse me [before May 2, 1010]
fall [May 18, 2010]
fan [before May 8, 2010]
fast [Mar 29, 2010]
fish [Mar 17, 2010]
flag [May 10, 2010]
flip-flop [May 12, 2010]
flush [Apr 6, 2010]
food [Apr 9, 2010]
foot [Apr 9, 2010]
fry [Apr 23, 2010]
“go away!” [Feb 23, 2010]
great (as in “great big bus”) [Apr 15, 2010]
happy [Dec 16, 2009]
hat [Dec 23, 2009]
head [Apr 6, 2010]
heavy [May 17, 2010]
helmet [May 20, 2010]
hide [Jan 24, 2010]
hike [May 2, 2010]
hello [Dec 19, 2009]
help [Apr 25, 2010]
“high five” [Apr 4, 2010]
home [Apr 4, 2010]
house [Apr 9, 2010]
horsey [Apr 27, 2010]
hug [Dec 29, 2009]
ice cream [May 5, 2010]
I (“I did it”) [Mar 4, 2010]
inside [May 20, 2010]
iPod [Apr 10, 2010]
it (“I did it”) [Mar 4, 2010]
Joe [before May 13, 2010]
Kaia (neighbor’s name) [Mar 10, 2010]
Katie [Apr 21, 2010]
kayak [May 2, 2010]
key [Dec 31, 2009] and keys [May 12, 2010]
knee [Mar 18, 2010]
knife [May 13, 2010]
knock-knock [Feb 3, 2010]
lap [May 12, 2010]
leg [May 22, 2010]
Liam [May 6, 2010]
like [May 4, 2010]
Liz [May 27, 2010]
locked May 25, 2010]
look [Apr 6, 2010]
loud [Nov 27, 2009]
Maia [Dec 7, 2009]
mail [Mar 3, 2010]
man [May 4, 2010]
Mann (as in Aimee) [May 16, 2010]
me [Dec 25, 2009]
Mema (grandma) [Dec 26, 2009]
Michelle [Apr 23, 2010]
milk [Jan 1, 2010]
Minnie Mouse [Mar 25, 2010]
Molly [May 26, 2010]
moo [Feb 11, 2010]
moon [Feb 21, 2010]
more [before May 8, 2010]
move [before May 19, 2010]
my [Dec 26, 2009]
Nana [Jan 10, 2010]
neigh! [Dec 5, 2009]
night-night [Jan 6, 2010]
no [Dec 23, 2009]
noise [May 28, 2010]
nose [Dec 3, 2009]
oatmeal [Dec 18, 2009]
oh dear! [Feb 15, 2010]
off [Mar 3, 2010]
OK [May 25, 2010]
one (as in “one more”) [before May 8, 2010]
out [Feb 18, 2010]
ow! [Dec 19, 2009]
paint [Jan 19, 2010]
Papa (grandad) [Dec 25, 2009]
Paulette [Apr 6, 2010]
pee [Feb 10, 2010]
peek [May 10, 2010]
Percy [May 25, 2010]
phone [Dec 4, 2009]
pizza [Apr 10, 2010]
PJ (next-door neighbor) [May 1, 2010]
play [May 22, 2010]
plate [Feb 21, 2010]
please [May 9, 2010]
Pooh (the bear) [Jan 2, 2010]
poop [Jan 10, 2010]
pop [May 4, 2010]
porch [Apr 4, 2010]
potty [Mar 13, 2010]
puff [Mar 13, 2010]
Puff (the Magic Dragon) [Apr 28, 2010]
push [Apr 6, 2010]
read [May 8, 2010]
ready [May 16, 2010]
rock (verb) [Apr 22, 2010]
run [May 1, 2010]
seat [Apr 12, 2010]
shirt [May 5, 2010]
shoes [Apr 8, 2010]
shot [May 22, 2010]
sing [May 8, 2010]
Skype [Apr 4, 2010]
sleep [Jan 18, 2010]
slide [May 17, 2010]
snap [Jan 24, 2010]
soap [Apr 10, 2010]
sorry [May 10, 2010]
spill [Apr 13, 2010]
splash [Apr 25, 2010]
spoon [Jan 5, 2010]
stop [Mar 30, 2010]
stuck [Feb 14, 2010]
Tasha [Apr 21, 2010]
Tess [May 3, 2010]
teeth [Apr 6, 2010]
thank you [Nov 23, 2009]
that [May 19, 2010]
tight [Feb 12, 2010]
toe [Apr 9, 2010]
tofu [May 10, 2010]
towel [Mar 3, 2010]
train [May 20, 2010]
trash [Apr 4, 2010]
trouble [mar 30, 2010]
truck [Dec 9, 2009]
turn (as in “your turn”) [Apr 29, 2010]
turtle [Feb 17, 2010]
upstairs [May 24, 2010]
very [Apr 6, 2010]
wait [May 28, 2010]
walk [Mar 30, 2010]
watch (verb) [Mar 4, 2010]
water [Apr 6, 2010]
water-bottle [May 2, 2010]
way (as in “That way, Daddy” [May 19, 2010]
wet [Mar 30, 2010]
whee! [May 24, 2010]
wheel [May 6, 2010]
wiggle [Mar 27, 2010]
window [Apr 10, 2010]
Winnie [Apr 30, 2010]
Yoda (the name of our pet iguana) [Feb 1, 2010]
your [Apr 29, 2010]
yum [Dec 19, 2009]

2 Responses to “Malkias’s vocabulary”

Will says:

January 24, 2010 at 1:35 pm

I like your rigour in cataloguing all this, but exactly how many years are you planning to keep the list up, Bodhipaksa?

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- bodhipaksa says:
  
  January 24, 2010 at 1:41 pm
  
  Until college? Actually, there comes a point when the words come so fast, and there are so many of them in total, that it’s impossible to keep track of them without sophisticated recording equipment and a team of grad students. I guess we’ll know when we get there. In the meantime, it’s a fascinating little project!
  
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