The national languages of the area are the better-described and better-known languages, and they happen to share many typological features that characterize Thai, such as a tendency for monosyllabicity, a lack of productive affixation, and an elaborate numeral classifier system. [...] If, for example, one’s earliest and most in-depth work on MSEA languages was on Lao (as is the case with the present author), then languages like Lao and Thai would seem typical. [...] Another viewpoint [...] is that a typical MSEA language lacks lexical tone, has complex phonotactics including syllable-initial consonant clusters, and has productive derivational morphology, quite a contrast from the oft-cited set of features of MSEA languages. (Enfield 2018: 234-235)
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