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From: smryan@netcom.com (Artie Choke)
Subject: Re: duplication?
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: 	What groups of languages do use duplication?  Is it often used
: to refer to something mystical, or maybe abstract?  Is there anything in
: common between cultures that use word-duplication apart from a common
: ancestry?

Proto-Indo-European used it (called reduplication), but I don't know
of any descendants that used it. It was sometimes used to indicate
"formed from or of" the base word.

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