Semai Language - Austro-Asiatic Languages

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Semai is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mon Khmer subgroup, and it is spoken in Western Malaysia by the Semai people, with 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. The Austro-Asiatic languages are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The name comes from the Latin word for "south" and the Greek name of Asia, hence "South Asia".

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