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Conlangery #20: Ideophones

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Sound Symbolism

The language kolo kuma has an entire set of ideophones for describing people who are walking unsteady. Some of them, as I've just mentioned, have nothing to do with sound at all. And movement, motion, and posture are really common. Have a lot of words for these. There seems to be some sort of sound symbolism, but that's just my general sense of it.

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