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Most of the creoles known are based on African languages which themselves had
plenty of ideophones- on the other hand there were various trade jargons
elsewhere (Mobilian in the Gulf of Mexico region, Chinookan in the Pac. NW,
etc.) which also had more syntactically oriented grammars than the parent
languages, which were more synthetic, and though much more limited
vocabularywise than true creoles (themselves derived from pidgins, from
English "business"), also weighed in towards sound effect words.
Jess Tauber
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