Her first word was "antidisestablishmentarianism"

[pne]

Amy said "ba" yesterday. It's the first time I recall hearing a consonant from her (except maybe voiced pharyngeal fricative or something like that, or was that merely "creaky voice").

She hasn't repeated it, though. Any phonations since then have involved only [a:].

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[pne.livejournal.com]

Maybe her next one will be one of Ubykh's weird ones? I don't know, labialised pharyngeal ejective or something like that?

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

Well, she already knows how to say "if", so there's nowhere to go but up from here... :P

In my (limited) experience, kids produce an awful lot of consonants in the first year or so that they'll never produce later on in life, so the pharyngeal voiced fricative you may have heard doesn't surprise me much.