When learning languages such as te reo Māori and Gagana Sāmoa, I cannot help but notice that there are a bunch of words that feature some form of duplication in them. For example, in Samoan, several colour terms are reduplicated, such as uliuli (black) and pa'epa'e (white). In Māori, there are words such as huihui … Continue reading Reduplication in some Malayo-Polynesian languages