Did your toddlers speak like this too?

[Throwwaway]

My son is almost 23 months (in a few days) and I think his speech is odd compared to other little ones I meet. He has a good amount of words in my opinion, all in our home language which isn’t English, he very rarely puts words together to form sentences. Here’s what I find unusual as in I’ve never seen another child do this:

1. he speaks in a sing song voice most of the time, like a falsetto head voice, not with this chest. This is probably 80%+ of the time
2. he only says the last syllable of words for the majority of words. Toboggan (slide) is just ‘Gan’ , voiture is ‘ture’ and lapin is ‘pin’ for example
3. most of his words are one syllable wether the real word is or not. Ambulance is ‘sa’ for some reason. Carrot = ca, canard = ca

he’s very young so I’m sure it’s normal but if anyones child was like this, what was the process of growing out of it like? Is it worth talking to the health visitor? I’m the only person who understands him 😂 but then he’s not even 2 yet. sorry for rambling

I'm not sure about the singsong voice, but I think the other stuff is quite common and nothing to worry about at this age.

Most of them start by reducing all words to one syllable, and it seems to vary which syllable this is. (My husband still ruefully recounts that our first daughter's words for 'Daddy' (Da), 'duck', and 'done' sounded the same to him – and she said 'duck' (all birds were ducks for awhile) and 'done' a lot more often than Da.)

You would hope to start seeing him put two words together soon, in the next couple of months, but it's not usually concerning not to be doing it quite yet.

Thank you 😊
good to see the monosyllabic thing is common 👌