Re: Ideophones in conlangs?

[Cliff Crawford <cjc26@CORNELL.EDU>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Douglas Koller wrote:

> > They are a kind of interjection, sometimes clearly related
> > to a noun/adjective/verb root, sometimes not.  We can
> > say in English, He fell down, plop!  They can express
> > this kind of thing for all the other things I mentioned.
> > African languages are famous for having lots of them for sounds,
> >colors, tastes, textures, and just about anything else you can think >of.
>
> Chinese has a very healthy dose of these:
> [snip]
> You'd have a hard time convincing me that these were not somehow linked
> to onomatopoeia.

Hmmm...after reading this post and the others on ideophones, I realized
that the interjections in Luganda that I posted before may not be the
same thing.  Can anyone clear this up for me?  Thanks...


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