Semai is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mon-Khmer subgroup, and it is spoken in Western Malaysia by about 33,000 speakers. One notable aspect of Semai phonology is its highly irregular pattern of expressive reduplication, showing discontiguous copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minor syllable.

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  • Semai is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mon-Khmer subgroup, and it is spoken in Western Malaysia by about 33,000 speakers. One notable aspect of Semai phonology is its highly irregular pattern of expressive reduplication, showing discontiguous copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minor syllable.
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  • Semai is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mon-Khmer subgroup, and it is spoken in Western Malaysia by about 33,000 speakers. One notable aspect of Semai phonology is its highly irregular pattern of expressive reduplication, showing discontiguous copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minor syllable.
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