Also, I showed that the ideophones in the language are both onomatopoeic and lexical (symbolic). I argued from findings that ideophones, as an independent open word category in Swahili, is not strictly distinct from other word categories phonologically but typically on morphological and syntactical parameters. The intention is to establish ideophone as an independent word category in the language. This work discusses representations and usages of ideophones in Swahili with focus on the manifestations of spoken texts in written texts, ideophonic representation of reality and not just imitation of sounds, and orthographic representations of ideophones. Despite the fact that ideophones represent a group of words with distinct features which have specific sensory-oriented functions, previous classification of ideophones in Bantu languages had not treated this group of lexical entries equally thus creating a linguistic gap in the various grammars.
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