Morphology
Thao has two or arguably three patterns of reduplication: Ca-reduplication, full reduplication, and rightward reduplication (which is sometimes considered to be a form of full reduplication).
Thao verbs have the following types of focus (Blust 2003:239).
- Actor: -um- (present), ma- (future)
- Patient: -in, -in-
- Locative: -an
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