[Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?

Raffaele Simone rsimone at os.uniroma3.it
Tue Mar 15 11:14:01 UTC 2022


Thanks again to everyone for the addenda.

I would like to specify, however, that I was also asking if the 
ideophones have a *written counterpart *and, if so, which one it is (if 
applicable, in translitteration).

Best,

Raffaele


l 14/03/2022 11:41, Vijay D'Souza ha scritto:

> Dear Raffaele,
>
> In Hrusso Aka (ISO code: hru; named 'Hruso' in Ethnologue), a language 
> of North East India, the ideophone for cough is [kjoxuʔ kjoxuʔ].
>
> Regards,
> Vijay D'Souza
>
> On Fri, 11 Mar, 2022, 15:29 Raffaele Simone, <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it> 
> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and
>     lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.
>
>     Romance languages and other which I am familiar with do not seem
>     to have a standard ideophone for it and even less a stable an
>     accepted written version of it.
>
>     Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even
>     more a way of indicating it in writing?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Raffaele
>
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