Reduplication

//ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən//

"Reduplication" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.

Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]

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