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Voices found in various languages include:
- Active voice
- Adjutative voice
- Antipassive voice
- Applicative voice
- Causative voice
- Circumstantial voice
- Impersonal passive voice
- Mediopassive voice
- Middle voice
- Passive voice
- Pseudo-passive
- Reciprocal voice (subject and object perform the verbal action to each other, e. g. She and I cut each other's hair)
- Reflexive voice (the subject and the object of the verb are the same, as in I cut my hair)
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