I think my children (oldest singleton included) must be pretty right brained… Language was always the first to come- They could speak in sentences before they were two.. (but didn’t do to good with puzzles and stuff) We did notice how they did help each other along with language. They would practice theier new words with each other and practice responding.. etc..
My twin boys share a secret language since they were 2 yrs old. They are now 3 1/2 and they still talk thier secret language to each other. They will talk normally to adults but sometimes they will talk their special language to other children, which these children look at my twins kind of funny. Idon’t know if they will ever outgrown this.
My twin girls had their own language, and the 3rd (Irish triplet) born 15 months after learned it too; the twins didn’t bother learning our speech until the youngest did it on her own. It became a problem in school, they didn’t know how to communicate to others what had or was happening (and less astute teachers believed the 3 year olds stories-resulting in CPS issues-don’t get me started). The school suggested speech therapy which has helped. They have repeated kindergarten this year, we want them to have a good foundation. I’ve tried to explain it to the school that in addition to learning the languages of numbers and letters, the twins had to learn English too. It was a tough year for them. So now, we have 3 girls, all in kindergarten (everyone has a different teacher). The twins continue speech therapy, one struggles with proper pronoun usages, but we’re getting there. While the twin talk is cute and unique, there are issues to overcome later when school comes into the picture.
I have twin boy and girl. Yes, they share a language.They have a laughing problem.When the 2 of them starts laughing they won’t stop.Noone can make them stop.The funny part is that noone knows what they are laughing about.So it makes everyone else laugh.
I have identical twin boys, now 7. When they were infants they communicated with what we referred to as “twin speak”.I guess you could describe it as a grunting noise, but it was the “ping” and “pong” type respose that caught our attention. They were definitely communicating on some level. It seemed to comfort them to know that the other was close by.
The film ‘Nell’ is about the survivor of a pair of twins who kept their twin talk into adulthood, mixed with Biblical archaisms and the mother’s aphasic speech.
Also look up June and Jennifer Gibbons, and “Poto and Cabengo” (Grace and Virginia Kennedy).
Comment by Jay Young — November 14, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
my twins don’t really talk to eachother in this language but one of them in particular has his own words for things even though he is quite capable and understands language, however, recently I’ve noticed that the other one is using Ashie’s language for things even though Ozzie is quite capable of saying words and phrases also. And we have started to use Ashie’s language aswell. These are his words for things.
Doombah = Daddy
Wah Wah = Mummy
Owah = shoes/slippers/socks
Oddot (silent ‘t’) = Ozzie (real name Ocean) his twin
Mm Mm = Birdy (real name Phoenix) his 3 year old brother
Mat man = Kal his 19year old brother
whoo whoo = train
He used to have a name for dog but he doesn’t use that any more.
I have twin boys who are 6yrs old and they still speak in twin. We have tried very hard to help them and so as the school they are in but i think they dont even relise they are doing it. They started to talk fine at around 18mth and then started to talk in this way we didn,t get. They have got much better over the last 12mths but i wonder if they will ever talk properly. My problem is how hard it is to get any help for it. From the age of 2 i got told they would grow out of it. At the age of 3 and a half they have started having speech therepy but they only get 45mins once a week for 10 sessions and the sessions can be 10 over 16wks. I think this is awful. After 10 sessions they go back on a waiting list for 5mth. I have tried everything to get more help for the boys i even went to the papers but that didnt really help it just make them look like freaks. All i get is its just their speech. Kids with this problem need so much more help than they get and it leaves me wondering how old they have to get before they will get any real help.
I have 15 month old twin boys. They speak to eachother more then they speak to us, they seem to know what eachother is thinking before an action is made. When I ask one a question he tends to look at the other for advice or approval, then he will respond with a babble of some sort. I believe that they have been able to communicate with one another since before they were born.
My youngest set of twins DID have their own talk. They are 15 and still say thing that no one understands but themselves. I don’t think it’s a myth. I think most scientist or other “we know what we’re talking about” people just don’t want to believe it.
My 4 yr old boys do not share a twin language, they share twin vocabs. Like, ‘a-cheh’ is thank you and ‘boom boom’ refers to a bike. No amount of family intervention can correct this. ‘Acheh’ and ‘boom boom’ is now part of our family vocab. If you can’t beat them, join them.
Yes, twins do have there own language, I have 2 1/2yrs olds girls and at night before they go to bed they have conversations with each other… they can understand it, but we can’t!
Yes, I have 4 year old twins, and and I thought at one time they had a developmental problem, until a doctor told me about twin talk, they communicate to each other in their own languange and sometimes if they want to tell me a secret it would be in twin talk, as if I understand what they are talking about.They did not develop “real words” until they were about 21/2. They still have some communication issues but they are now bi-lingual.
I have twin grandaughters, and yes, they have a language all their own. They are almost 3.5 years old now. It’s the funniest thing to listen to because they talk really fast when they do it as though it’s a real language. I suppose for them it is.
I have an identical twin sister. And all my life my parents told us that when we were babies we had our own language that we would speak to eachother. This only happened when no one was around. When we would be left in our cribs opposite sides of the room, my parents would come to wake us up from our sleep and find us standing up, looking at eachother and talking very fast. And they said we almost seemed angry sometimes. And when my parents would come in we would stop instantly. I love this story. Because now at 21 years old, we still communicate differently. And i dont have to explain most things because she finishes my sentence or my thoughts. We trip out about it all the time.
I have an identical twin we are now 22 and our parents said we had a very specific way of commuicating with one another and still do…they had us in speech therpy and seperate classes at school until junior high.. But still till this day i think its just the bond one has with ones twin that outsiders dont understand there for try to put an explanation on it when really all that is needed to know is a twin is a twin you spend nine months in the same women your bound to have an amazing closeness to one another. Like the girl above me said my sister and i have a way of knowin what the other feels and sometimes thinks it trips us out to we go to seperate collages in different states now but we still have an unbreakable bond..
My twin and I are 25 and our speech with each other seems to get more and more shortened and replaced with sounds or facial expressions. We can be across a room full of people and have a whole conversation just with facial expressions and no ones the wiser. I dont even call her by her real name, twice this week talking to my mom and my brother i mentioned her nickname and they both said who????? I’ve been calling her that for years!
I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, being able to have someone go through a lot fo the same experiences and understand you on such a deep level is amazing.
i think that twins do have a secret language. im a twin and also have twins of my own. they definately communicate with each other. i believe firmly that one undersyands the other. my twin sister and i can also carry a conversation strictly through facial expressions.
Comment by jocelyn jones — February 23, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
me and my sister are twins and we used to have a language we would say random made up words and we could completely understand, we would also draw random pics of lines and we thought they were wonderful and sometimes breakout laughing in histericts.
sometimes we have the same dreams too
I have identical twin boys who are nearly 3 and they do have there own language they can get the sounds of real words out to adults but i have to get them to say it a few times before i know what they are saying but they just talk to each other in thier own way and their older brother can understand them so i know what they want but i dont know whether or not to seek help from a speech therapist or wait for them to learn naturally has anyone else found this problem with theier twins?
Comment by Lauren Roberts — March 13, 2009 @ 4:36 am
My identical twin brother and I had a language of our own. We didn’t play well with other kids (I liked hitting people and he was very shy), but we always played together perfectly, so when our parents brought us places to play with other kids, like a playground or something, we would just sit somewhere off by ourselves and talk to each other. We both did some speech therapy when we got to school age, but continued using our “language” and weren’t made fun of because we were homeschooled by our mum. Now we’re sixteen, we still use the language at home (and out in public too! we aren’t embarassed by it). We’ve gotten better at making friends, but we never do things seperately (i.e. I have a sleepover at a girlfriend’s house while my brother does something with his guy friends), because both of us get panic attacks when away from each other. We have a really strong bond, sometimes almost too strong, but we both love it. The people we hang out with call us the “Creepy Twins” as a joke. We don’t really mind, the only opinion that really matters to either of us is each other’s.
~ Bella
I am a triplet and my sister, brother, and I, when we were around 2 or 3, would sit in a circle and talk in this weird language. One day my mom decided to try and talk with us, and we all just started staring then laughed at her. I am now 14 and I just thought is was pretty cool how we had our own language. *peace*
I have twin 2 year old girls who without a doubt have their own way of communicating with each other. Both have suffered hearing loss to different degrees. They both have been taught sign language as well as verbal language. I have watched them talk to each other while playing ask for things. They will use the correct sign with me but when they are talking to each other, it is a different sign. Even the words they speak are different between adults and themselves. It is amazing to see. The younger of my twins has seizures and the older twin always can tell when it is coming on. She comes and gets me or will sound the alarm. I firmly believe they do have ways to talk to each other. And they do NOT like to be apart.
i have twin girls that are 4yrs old and reguardless of what “professionals” may say about twin talk being a myth unless they have twins in a day in day out situation what do they really know!! my girls talk 2 each other in twin talk which is lovely 2 watch,they understand each other perfectly while other’s can’t. my 6yr old son has adapt 2 the way his sister’s talk and sometimes has 2 translate 2 me!i definatley believe twin have the ability 2 commuicate in their own langauge which both unique and fasinating.
I am a twin. I am 25 years old, and i still have a secret language with my sister. My mother, nor my other sisters have been able to break the code although they have tried.
My brother, Jem (his real name is Jake but I don’t think I ever call him that) and I are third generation twins (My mother and grandmother also have twins)and that may be why my twin and I were always encouraged in our twin ways. We learned English just fine, because we have three older siblings we still have to talk to, but we do speak in our special language to one another (interestingly, neither our mother nor our grandmother or their respective twins can understand us, and we cannot understand them when they speak their language).
My identical twin girls were adopted from china at the age of 15 months. they used to combine baby language like Ga-Ga with simple English words such as the, he, she, a, did.. as well as random words that we thought were Chinese but our Chinese friend who is very fluent had a direct answer of “for the last time, it is NOT part of the Chinese language”. What was also funny was that words always ended in “a” and had no other vowels, just a.They are now fifteen and still use the language called diabasheaia (dia-ba-she-a-ia). They never share it with friends and only speak it with the door locked or when home alone…etc…It is a mystery but we have just let them do it all these years.
When me and my twin brother were babies we would talk to eachother in our own language. both my parents and my grandmother told me this. i feel very special to be a twin because when i look at my brother it makes me relise that hes the only person in the world that i share the exact same DNA strands.
hey! im a 14 year old twin and only just recently my identical twin and i have found out how to use our twin launguage and also twin telepathy were we can send vibes and images to eachouther without looking or talking
its truly amazing
aachee means thankyou bye
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I think my children (oldest singleton included) must be pretty right brained… Language was always the first to come- They could speak in sentences before they were two.. (but didn’t do to good with puzzles and stuff) We did notice how they did help each other along with language. They would practice theier new words with each other and practice responding.. etc..
Comment by Chris — October 23, 2007 @ 8:33 am
My twin boys share a secret language since they were 2 yrs old. They are now 3 1/2 and they still talk thier secret language to each other. They will talk normally to adults but sometimes they will talk their special language to other children, which these children look at my twins kind of funny. Idon’t know if they will ever outgrown this.
Comment by pauline — October 23, 2007 @ 9:10 am
My twin girls had their own language, and the 3rd (Irish triplet) born 15 months after learned it too; the twins didn’t bother learning our speech until the youngest did it on her own. It became a problem in school, they didn’t know how to communicate to others what had or was happening (and less astute teachers believed the 3 year olds stories-resulting in CPS issues-don’t get me started). The school suggested speech therapy which has helped. They have repeated kindergarten this year, we want them to have a good foundation. I’ve tried to explain it to the school that in addition to learning the languages of numbers and letters, the twins had to learn English too. It was a tough year for them. So now, we have 3 girls, all in kindergarten (everyone has a different teacher). The twins continue speech therapy, one struggles with proper pronoun usages, but we’re getting there. While the twin talk is cute and unique, there are issues to overcome later when school comes into the picture.
Comment by Dodi — October 23, 2007 @ 9:19 am
I have twin boy and girl. Yes, they share a language.They have a laughing problem.When the 2 of them starts laughing they won’t stop.Noone can make them stop.The funny part is that noone knows what they are laughing about.So it makes everyone else laugh.
Comment by jamie — October 23, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
I have identical twin boys, now 7. When they were infants they communicated with what we referred to as “twin speak”.I guess you could describe it as a grunting noise, but it was the “ping” and “pong” type respose that caught our attention. They were definitely communicating on some level. It seemed to comfort them to know that the other was close by.
Comment by Marie — October 23, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
The film ‘Nell’ is about the survivor of a pair of twins who kept their twin talk into adulthood, mixed with Biblical archaisms and the mother’s aphasic speech.
Also look up June and Jennifer Gibbons, and “Poto and Cabengo” (Grace and Virginia Kennedy).
Comment by Jay Young — November 14, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
my twins don’t really talk to eachother in this language but one of them in particular has his own words for things even though he is quite capable and understands language, however, recently I’ve noticed that the other one is using Ashie’s language for things even though Ozzie is quite capable of saying words and phrases also. And we have started to use Ashie’s language aswell. These are his words for things.
Doombah = Daddy
Wah Wah = Mummy
Owah = shoes/slippers/socks
Oddot (silent ‘t’) = Ozzie (real name Ocean) his twin
Mm Mm = Birdy (real name Phoenix) his 3 year old brother
Mat man = Kal his 19year old brother
whoo whoo = train
He used to have a name for dog but he doesn’t use that any more.
Comment by nikki — April 9, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
I have twin boys who are 6yrs old and they still speak in twin. We have tried very hard to help them and so as the school they are in but i think they dont even relise they are doing it. They started to talk fine at around 18mth and then started to talk in this way we didn,t get. They have got much better over the last 12mths but i wonder if they will ever talk properly. My problem is how hard it is to get any help for it. From the age of 2 i got told they would grow out of it. At the age of 3 and a half they have started having speech therepy but they only get 45mins once a week for 10 sessions and the sessions can be 10 over 16wks. I think this is awful. After 10 sessions they go back on a waiting list for 5mth. I have tried everything to get more help for the boys i even went to the papers but that didnt really help it just make them look like freaks. All i get is its just their speech. Kids with this problem need so much more help than they get and it leaves me wondering how old they have to get before they will get any real help.
Comment by Hayley — April 13, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
I have 15 month old twin boys. They speak to eachother more then they speak to us, they seem to know what eachother is thinking before an action is made. When I ask one a question he tends to look at the other for advice or approval, then he will respond with a babble of some sort. I believe that they have been able to communicate with one another since before they were born.
Comment by Angel — September 10, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
My youngest set of twins DID have their own talk. They are 15 and still say thing that no one understands but themselves. I don’t think it’s a myth. I think most scientist or other “we know what we’re talking about” people just don’t want to believe it.
Comment by Kim — September 30, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
My 4 yr old boys do not share a twin language, they share twin vocabs. Like, ‘a-cheh’ is thank you and ‘boom boom’ refers to a bike. No amount of family intervention can correct this. ‘Acheh’ and ‘boom boom’ is now part of our family vocab. If you can’t beat them, join them.
Comment by Linda — September 30, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Yes, twins do have there own language, I have 2 1/2yrs olds girls and at night before they go to bed they have conversations with each other… they can understand it, but we can’t!
Comment by Jackie — October 9, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
Yes, I have 4 year old twins, and and I thought at one time they had a developmental problem, until a doctor told me about twin talk, they communicate to each other in their own languange and sometimes if they want to tell me a secret it would be in twin talk, as if I understand what they are talking about.They did not develop “real words” until they were about 21/2. They still have some communication issues but they are now bi-lingual.
Comment by rana — October 14, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I have twin grandaughters, and yes, they have a language all their own. They are almost 3.5 years old now. It’s the funniest thing to listen to because they talk really fast when they do it as though it’s a real language. I suppose for them it is.
Comment by Marty — November 13, 2008 @ 9:26 am
I have an identical twin sister. And all my life my parents told us that when we were babies we had our own language that we would speak to eachother. This only happened when no one was around. When we would be left in our cribs opposite sides of the room, my parents would come to wake us up from our sleep and find us standing up, looking at eachother and talking very fast. And they said we almost seemed angry sometimes. And when my parents would come in we would stop instantly. I love this story. Because now at 21 years old, we still communicate differently. And i dont have to explain most things because she finishes my sentence or my thoughts. We trip out about it all the time.
Comment by Natasha — December 22, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
I have an identical twin we are now 22 and our parents said we had a very specific way of commuicating with one another and still do…they had us in speech therpy and seperate classes at school until junior high.. But still till this day i think its just the bond one has with ones twin that outsiders dont understand there for try to put an explanation on it when really all that is needed to know is a twin is a twin you spend nine months in the same women your bound to have an amazing closeness to one another. Like the girl above me said my sister and i have a way of knowin what the other feels and sometimes thinks it trips us out to we go to seperate collages in different states now but we still have an unbreakable bond..
Comment by Christy — January 19, 2009 @ 6:32 pm
My twin and I are 25 and our speech with each other seems to get more and more shortened and replaced with sounds or facial expressions. We can be across a room full of people and have a whole conversation just with facial expressions and no ones the wiser.
I dont even call her by her real name, twice this week talking to my mom and my brother i mentioned her nickname and they both said who????? I’ve been calling her that for years!
I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, being able to have someone go through a lot fo the same experiences and understand you on such a deep level is amazing.
Comment by amanda — February 7, 2009 @ 7:36 am
i think that twins do have a secret language. im a twin and also have twins of my own. they definately communicate with each other. i believe firmly that one undersyands the other. my twin sister and i can also carry a conversation strictly through facial expressions.
Comment by jocelyn jones — February 23, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
me and my sister are twins and we used to have a language we would say random made up words and we could completely understand, we would also draw random pics of lines and we thought they were wonderful and sometimes breakout laughing in histericts.
sometimes we have the same dreams too
Comment by hannah — February 28, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
I have identical twin boys who are nearly 3 and they do have there own language they can get the sounds of real words out to adults but i have to get them to say it a few times before i know what they are saying but they just talk to each other in thier own way and their older brother can understand them so i know what they want but i dont know whether or not to seek help from a speech therapist or wait for them to learn naturally has anyone else found this problem with theier twins?
Comment by Lauren Roberts — March 13, 2009 @ 4:36 am
My identical twin brother and I had a language of our own. We didn’t play well with other kids (I liked hitting people and he was very shy), but we always played together perfectly, so when our parents brought us places to play with other kids, like a playground or something, we would just sit somewhere off by ourselves and talk to each other. We both did some speech therapy when we got to school age, but continued using our “language” and weren’t made fun of because we were homeschooled by our mum. Now we’re sixteen, we still use the language at home (and out in public too! we aren’t embarassed by it). We’ve gotten better at making friends, but we never do things seperately (i.e. I have a sleepover at a girlfriend’s house while my brother does something with his guy friends), because both of us get panic attacks when away from each other. We have a really strong bond, sometimes almost too strong, but we both love it. The people we hang out with call us the “Creepy Twins” as a joke. We don’t really mind, the only opinion that really matters to either of us is each other’s.
~ Bella
Comment by Bella — March 29, 2009 @ 8:56 am
I am a triplet and my sister, brother, and I, when we were around 2 or 3, would sit in a circle and talk in this weird language. One day my mom decided to try and talk with us, and we all just started staring then laughed at her. I am now 14 and I just thought is was pretty cool how we had our own language. *peace*
Comment by bethany — April 23, 2009 @ 12:33 am
I have twin 2 year old girls who without a doubt have their own way of communicating with each other. Both have suffered hearing loss to different degrees. They both have been taught sign language as well as verbal language. I have watched them talk to each other while playing ask for things. They will use the correct sign with me but when they are talking to each other, it is a different sign. Even the words they speak are different between adults and themselves. It is amazing to see. The younger of my twins has seizures and the older twin always can tell when it is coming on. She comes and gets me or will sound the alarm. I firmly believe they do have ways to talk to each other. And they do NOT like to be apart.
Comment by Becka — May 9, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
i have twin girls that are 4yrs old and reguardless of what “professionals” may say about twin talk being a myth unless they have twins in a day in day out situation what do they really know!! my girls talk 2 each other in twin talk which is lovely 2 watch,they understand each other perfectly while other’s can’t. my 6yr old son has adapt 2 the way his sister’s talk and sometimes has 2 translate 2 me!i definatley believe twin have the ability 2 commuicate in their own langauge which both unique and fasinating.
Comment by sara — May 20, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
I am a twin. I am 25 years old, and i still have a secret language with my sister. My mother, nor my other sisters have been able to break the code although they have tried.
Comment by Tiffany — June 11, 2009 @ 11:07 pm
My brother, Jem (his real name is Jake but I don’t think I ever call him that) and I are third generation twins (My mother and grandmother also have twins)and that may be why my twin and I were always encouraged in our twin ways. We learned English just fine, because we have three older siblings we still have to talk to, but we do speak in our special language to one another (interestingly, neither our mother nor our grandmother or their respective twins can understand us, and we cannot understand them when they speak their language).
Comment by Sha and Jem — July 14, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
My identical twin girls were adopted from china at the age of 15 months. they used to combine baby language like Ga-Ga with simple English words such as the, he, she, a, did.. as well as random words that we thought were Chinese but our Chinese friend who is very fluent had a direct answer of “for the last time, it is NOT part of the Chinese language”. What was also funny was that words always ended in “a” and had no other vowels, just a.They are now fifteen and still use the language called diabasheaia (dia-ba-she-a-ia). They never share it with friends and only speak it with the door locked or when home alone…etc…It is a mystery but we have just let them do it all these years.
Comment by Kara — August 17, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
When me and my twin brother were babies we would talk to eachother in our own language. both my parents and my grandmother told me this. i feel very special to be a twin because when i look at my brother it makes me relise that hes the only person in the world that i share the exact same DNA strands.
Comment by shane dunning — September 1, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
hey! im a 14 year old twin and only just recently my identical twin and i have found out how to use our twin launguage and also twin telepathy were we can send vibes and images to eachouther without looking or talking
its truly amazing
aachee means thankyou bye
Comment by alex — September 17, 2009 @ 3:39 am