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Conlangery #20: Ideophones

Conlangery Podcast

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Idiot Phones

An idiot phone is a conlang that has some sort of sensory imagery to it. Often there's an idiomatic component. There's a reduplication involved. But it just has, it gives you a general sense or feeling rather than having a specific definition. The phones are interesting because they're kind of unloved linguistically or have been in the past. They don't often don't fit into the grammar normally.

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