Comments on: Ideophones around the web http://ideophone.org/ideophones-around-the-web/ Sounding out ideas on African languages, sound symbolism, and expressivity Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Ker http://ideophone.org/ideophones-around-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-1586 David Ker Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:42:00 +0000 http://ideophone.org/?p=1086#comment-1586 The Kimwani Bible translation team in Mozambique was using ideophones more than a decade ago as far as I know. Interesting that the ideophones are used in translation of narrative but not dialogue, thus Jesus' claim that Peter would deny him before the cock crows doesn't use the ideophone. Thanks for this site and the research you do. The Kimwani Bible translation team in Mozambique was using ideophones more than a decade ago as far as I know.

Interesting that the ideophones are used in translation of narrative but not dialogue, thus Jesus’ claim that Peter would deny him before the cock crows doesn’t use the ideophone.

Thanks for this site and the research you do.

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