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Semai language

Also known as: Central Senoic language

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Austroasiatic morphology

In Austroasiatic languages: Morphology
…of noun phrases (possessives in Semai, demonstratives in Mnong), but these do not constitute word suffixes. (2) Infixes and prefixes are common, so that only the final vowel and consonant of a word root remain untouched. It is rare to find more than one or two affixes (i.e., prefixes or…
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Senoic languages

In Senoic languages
The main languages, Semai and Temiar, are spoken in the Main Range of the Malay Peninsula. Together their speakers number some 33,000.
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