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Conlangery #54: Reduplication

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Cantonese - Redoplication

Chinese has a lot of reduplication, but it's mostly for semantic purposes. In certain dimorphemic words, Chinese will replicate both morphine. Redoplication is repeated by being picked up and moved to another part of the word. The first two words in Cantonese are typically from a substrate Moncamera dialect.

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