The second word has high tones on the first and the third vowels. Perhaps the most remarkable part of Samoan phonology is the existence of two different phonological registers. The former is always used in writing and most often used in Western-inspired activities such as church sermons, radio broadcasts and school events. Consonant clusters, where two or more consonants comes together without an intervening vowels, do not occur in Samoan. Like many Polynesian languages, reduplication is very common.
Reduplication is the process whereby part or all of the word is repeated.
This reduplication can be the complete or partial repetition of the word, and can occur as a suffix, prefix or commonly as an infix. Reduplication serves many functions, but in Samoan one of the most common functions is to mark plural verbs.