Comments on: Twin language?

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:51:13 +0000

I have a friend who has a fraternal twin brother and he has told me stories of a connection they share. One time my friend banged his head falling down on some concrete at a friends house and at home his twin suddenly cried out in pain clutching his head. Also the first time my friend got drunk his twin started stumbling around the house and had a hangover the next morning.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:05:06 +0000

I am a twin, and twin language exists trust me on this one. Im 22 years old.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:51:57 +0000

Yup, my boys have a language. I believe this is why their english skills have been a bit delayed. They seem to have been working hard at figuring out a few key phrases that they both use (I’m picking up on some of them and have even started to use them back in the same context that I think they should be said… they think this is hellarious!). Then again, their Au Pair is from Brazil, and I still have not figured out how to say much in Portuguese, so maybe they are just speaking a whole-nother language all together!
Dana

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:14:18 +0000

I get asked that a lot too. We had some nonsense words that both used to use (nana for water, for example) but not a real language. They definitely have inside jokes that I just don’t get – saying “me-me!” and shaking their heads and laughing. And insisting that they are someone else. But not a real language.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:20 +0000

I would be interested to see if the twins that used twin language were identicals or fraternals. I’m don’t think that it matters, but it would be neat to see.

My girls are identical, they will be turning 10 in Dec. and they definitely spoke “twin language” to each other for nearly three years, and into Kindergarten. They had speech delays and used their twin language with each other to “speak”. I wish I had recorded it, but I was just so overloaded with babies and children back then that I didn’t think to. I really wish I had, it was so neat. The babies came out of the delivery room (the OR) humming to each other in the bassinets. I asked that they be put in the same bassinet together, they kept humming. I don’t remember exactly when it started, but the first one to talk started talking what sounded like “gibberish” and then the second one to talk started responding back and they’d go do something, as if that meant something. Or they’d laugh. That’s when we knew they were talking in twin language. They did it all through their toddler years and then on up into Kindergarten. They’d switch back between English and Twin Talk.

I’ll post this on my blog. Sorry for the long response.

By: Marnie

Marnie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:25:00 +0000

I waited with eager anticipation to hear my girls’ “secret language” and I am still waiting. They just turned two and they talk ALL THE TIME. In fact, they don’t shut up. They fall asleep talking and they wake up talking. Maddie (aka Baby B) feels like she is required to narrate her every observation and action and thought throughout the day. It’s really quite adorable. They started very early and are currently regularly using upwards of 7 word sentences. It’s insane-they are suddenly little PEOPLE. They do seem to have a special non-verbal connection of sorts. They play very well together – like they have every movement pre-planned. Oh…and people ask me about the secret language all the time! I don’t find it as annoying as most of the other stock twin questions though.

By: WhatACard

WhatACard — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:10:40 +0000

My boys have a few shared “nonsense” words that clearly aren’t nonsense to them, but I wouldn’t call it a whole language.

And some of their earliest words were shared non-words, like Nay-Nay to refer to one another. They both said it to refer to the other…very strange!

By: meg

meg — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:15:22 +0000

I totally understand your irritation with the questions that go along with having twins – why dont you dress them alike, do they have “twin moments”. I hate being asked if I like being a twin, I dont know, do you like being a singleton? I dont know any different!

My least favorite conversation regarding being a twin goes as follows:

Me: I have a twin brother, B.
(I am woman, with the short feminine frame and long hair to prove it, so it is not as though people could mistake me for a boy, as they can with babies or toddlers)

Person: Oh that is so cool! Are you guys identical??

Me: Well, he is a boy and I am a girl.

Person: Blank stare

Me: In order to be identical, you must have identical genes. Boys have XX, girls have XY

Person: blank stare

By: Staci Dauphine

Staci Dauphine — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:45:18 +0000

Since our babies don’t talk I don’t think they have their own language. Sometimes though Preston will babble and Lily babbles back this will go on for about 10 mins so I am assuming there is some sort of communication going on. They also do the chasing/chasee thing, so funny!!

By: Sumer

Sumer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:04:36 +0000

Mine don’t have a language, but definitely one or two words that only they know the meaning of. In fact, they’re quite frustrated that we don’t know what it means!