Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Carlos Thompson wrote:

> Has any conlang used onomatopeyics for genera vocabulary?
Tokana has a number of onomatopoetic verbs for animal calls and
other sounds:

        laka            "bark like a dog"
        miauha          "mew like a cat"
        niuka           "grunt like a pig"
        uhna kahkaiah   "crow like a rooster"
                                (lit. "sing kah-ka-yaa")

        ksiama          "sneeze"
        haukia          "cough"
        hektuta         "hiccough"
        sysa            "hiss"
        kehta           "belch, break wind"

A few animal names are onomatopoetic as well:

        houn            "owl"
        miua            "cat"

Matt.