Re: dutch ipa

Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:

> > bastu2 ??? looks IN but isn't AFAIK
>
> This is probably a stupid question that everybody knows the answer to, but I
> have always been wondering: what does this _2_ mean in Indonesian?
Just a short way of indicating reduplication in languages that do a lot of it,
so bastu2 = bastu bastu.

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