Rotokas

For example, in Rotokas, a language used in Papua New Guinea, doubling a word is used to indicate repetition: tapa = to hit tapatapa = to hit repeatedly kopi = a dot kopikopi = spotted kavau = to bear a child kavakavau = to bear many children

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We call these units phonemes and the total inventory in languages varies from as few as 11 in Rotokas, which is spoken in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, to as many as 112 in !

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In 1975 Jared Diamond noted his 1972 discovery of an unknown mountain-dwelling passerine on Bougainville Island, known to the local speakers of the Rotokas language as the kopipi, and to the Nasioi speakers as the ódedi.

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And here is a brief description of the language, which "is phonologically the simplest language known, having just ten phonemes, one fewer than in Rotokas."

languagehat.com: PIRAHA AND WHORF. 2004

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