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Japanese sound symbolism
Large amount of sound-symbolic words in Japanese / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones.[1][2] Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese.[3] Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings;[1] indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that make no noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by 'silently' (しーんと, shīnto), not to be confused with the religion Shintō.
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