Morphology
All Aslian languages that have been thoroughly studied have constructive usage of various morphophonemic devices – prefixation, infixation and reduplication. Also, most Aslian languages preserve fossilized traces of other morphological patterns that are no longer productive.
It was also noted that the use of the suffix in Aslian languages was a product of recent use of Malay loaned words. For example the use of the infix 'n' is prominent in various Aslian language and it encompasses a myriad of definition.
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