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* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on how the writers feel that day.]] To the audience, Stewie can seemingly speak perfect English despite being only a year old, yet his parents, sister and most other adults are presumed to not understand him since they rarely respond to what he says, and when they do, it's in an indirect way, suggesting that they just guess what he means based on his mood. The only primary characters who are consistently shown to understand Stewie are Brian and Chris. Any minor or {{OneShot|Character}} adult character that Stewie interacts with is usually shown to understand him as well. It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* In P.L. Travers' original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' stories, babies could talk to each other, and also to animals and inanimate objects.

->'''Craig''': He's called Alfie.\\
'''Baby Alfie''': [''gurgles'']\\
'''The Doctor''': Yes, he likes that, "Alfie". Though personally, he prefers to be called "'''[[DeathbringerTheAdorable Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All]]'''".
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Closing Time"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' is an interesting case in that three-year-olds like [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]] and [[TheRival Su]][[TheConfidant zie]] can talk with the baby characters as well as with the adults. There's also Dil, who's three months old and can't be understood by the babies except for when he says occasional words like "Mine" or "Poopy".

* ''Series/BabyTalk'' was a TV series based on the movie ''Film/LookWhosTalking'', thus it had the same premise of babies speaking to each other Garfield style.

[[folder: Comics ]]

* One ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'' strip revealed that Hammie (at the time a toddler) could perfectly understand his younger sister Wren's baby talk, as well as speaking English. Zoe (a kindergartner) observed that she must have grown up too much as she couldn't make any sense of baby talk anymore.

* Babies in ''ComicStrip/JumpStart'' speak in AllLowercaseLetters as a TranslationConvention that represents this.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on how the writers feel that day.]] To the audience, Stewie can speak perfect English despite being only a year old, yet his parents, sister and most other adults are presumed to not understand him since they rarely respond to what he says, and when they do, it's in an indirect way, suggesting that they just guess what he means based on his mood. The only characters who are consistently shown to understand Stewie are Brian, Chris, and minor characters he interacts with. It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on how the writers feel that day.]] To the audience, Stewie can speak perfectly, yet his parents, sister and most adults are presumed to not understand him since they rarely respond to what he says, and when they do, it's in an indirect way, suggesting that they can guess what he means based on his mood. The only characters who are consistently shown to understand Stewie are Brian, Chris, and most minor characters he interacts with. It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[NegativeContinuity depending on how the writers feel that day.]] Stewie can speak perfectly, yet the family and most other adults are presumed to not being able to understand him since they rarely respond to what he says (only Brian, Chris, and most side characters are consistently shown to understand him). It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[NegativeContinuity depending on how the writers feel that day.]] Stewie can speak perfectly, yet the family and most other adults are presumed to not being able to understand him as they rarely respond to what he says (only Brian, Chris, and most side characters are consistently shown to understand him). It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[NegativeContinuity depending on how the writers feel that day.]] Stewie can speak perfectly, yet the family and most other adults are presumed to not being able to understand him (only Brian, Chris, and most side characters can understand him). It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' has the babies speaking a coherent language that adults cannot understand, and writing in "Ancient [[{{Pun}} Babylonian]]" script that takes the form of a child's seemingly random scrawling. Its stated that when babies grow up past a certain point, they lose this intelligence and all knowledge of the language, and the villains of the first film are obsessed with (among other things) deciphering the language.
* ''Film/LookWhosTalking'' had some of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' is an interesting case in that three-year-olds like [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]] and [[TheRival Su]][[TheConfidant zie]] can talk with the baby characters as well as with the adults. There's also Dil, who's three months old and can't be understood by the babies except for when he says occasional words like "Mine" or "Poopy".

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in-universe by Wilma and Betty in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' when they discuss how Pebbles and Bam-Bam seem to speak to each other in BabyTalk.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBabyBackInBusiness'', which is a {{sequel}} of the aforementioned '''The Boss Baby''.

* Stewie on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may be an example, [[NegativeContinuity depending on how the writers feel that day.]] Stewie can speak perfectly, yet the family and most other adults are presumed to not being able to understand him (only Brian and most side characters can understand him). It gets lampshaded at one point where an angry Meg demands to know who was talking about her and everyone immediately blames Stewie, causing him to say "Oh, so now everyone understands me?" WordOfGod also says that everyone ''can'' understand Stewie, but choose to ignore him most of the time.

* A DiscussedTrope on the ''WebVideo/KidsReact'' video with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgvuHCoXeEs Talking Twin Babies]]. Asked whether all babies speak a universal baby language, the kids give varied answers. The twins Megan and Shannon have no memory of being able to communicate with each other before they could talk.

* A DiscussedTrope on the ''WebVideo/KidsReact'' with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgvuHCoXeEs Talking Twin Babies]]. Asked whether all babies speak a universal baby language, the kids give varied answers. The twins Megan and Shannon have no memory of being able to communicate with each other before they could talk.