This is a video of my son at 16 months. You cannot understand a word he is saying. We were never once concerned with his language development. Our Pediatrician told us to not encourage the baby talk, so we would pretend our son was talking normally. But in his mind, he was talking to us, he made up his own language that I still to this day can't tell you what he was saying!
It is tempting to use baby talk, but refrain from doing so. It's okay when the child is very young, but when they start repeating, it's best to use actual words. The child will not use the entire word "bottle" but will shorten it on their own to "baba." This is okay. They have assimilated the word "baba" with "bottle" which is most important.
Continue to talk to your child as if they are an older child, explain to them what things are and if they ask for something explain to them what they should say, such as "please" and then the object. They cannot form complete sentences instantly, it takes time.
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