[Mihalic] kai2

[Richard Scaglion]

This is usage is common in Bahasa Indonesia, the lingua franca of 
Indonesia, which has a lot of reduplication. And of course, Bahasa is used 
widely in Papua.

Rick

--On Friday, March 18, 2005 3:14 PM +0100 Eva Lindstrom <evali at ling.su.se> 
wrote:r

> Hello all,
>
> are you familiar with the habit of writing words like kaikai,
> pukpuk etc as kai2, puk2 (with superscript '2')? I've seen it
> in personal letters (in New Ireland) and am curious how and
> where it may have developed -- between high school students
> separated in holidays or after leaving school? How spread is
> it? Are there other practices of a similar kind?
>
> Thanks & best wishes,
>
> Eva Lindström
> Linguistics
> Stockholm University
>
>
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