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This paper aims at providing an account of the non-concatenative word formation processes adopted by Molsom language namely compounding and reduplication. In Molsom, the most productive types of compounds are the endocentric compound and exocentric compound. Endocentric compounds in Molsom are further classified into two: left-headed and right headed. Reduplication is also another productive morphological process in Molsom. It can be of two types: complete reduplication and partial reduplication. Molsom has plenty of partial reduplications; and the less productive one, i.e. complete reduplication has also been observed in Molsom. Molsom attests partial reduplication where the reduplicative template copies the entire part of the base from the right edge excepting the initial consonant. A fixed consonant begins the reduplicant which is predominantly a coronal [+cor] one: /t?/ or /s/. Instances of reduplicants with /b/ as the initial consonant are also noted. In cases where the base begins with a coronal i.e. /t?/ or /s/ the reduplicant prefers to keep the consonant unchanged and changes the immediate vowel after the consonant in a systematic way.