Phonology
Reduplication
Thao has two or arguably three patterns of reduplication: Ca-reduplication, full reduplication, and rightward reduplication .
Further reading
* . ''Thao dictionary''. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics , Academic Sinica.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Thao language
Thao is the language of the , a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines in the region of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. In 2000 there were approximately 5 or 6 speakers, all but one of whom were over the age of sixty. It is a Formosan language of the family. Thao dialect is related to Ilocano, the dialect in the north of the Philippines. Some words and phrases are the same as the dialect use in the Philippines.
Thao has two or arguably three patterns of reduplication: Ca-reduplication, full reduplication, and rightward reduplication .
* . ''Thao dictionary''. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics , Academic Sinica.
Thao has two or arguably three patterns of reduplication: Ca-reduplication, full reduplication, and rightward reduplication .
* . ''Thao dictionary''. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics , Academic Sinica.
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