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irrintzi — whoop of joy typical of Basque shepherds when they are in the mountains, and of Basque people in general; irri-orro — smudge. isilka-misilka — whispering. iski-miski — trivialities. ito-ito — a big hurry. itsu-itsu — blindly. itx-atx — not a word. ixil-mixil — secret conversation. ixo — shhh, hush. izka-mizka ...
Pages in category "Basque language" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... List of ideophones in Basque; M. Mendi Mendiyan; P. Pello Joxepe;
Electrophones are instruments in which sound is generated by electrical means. While it is not officially in any published form of the Hornbostel–Sachs system, and hence, lacking proper numerical subdivisions, it is often considered a fifth main category.
121.1 Clack idiophones - The lamella is carved in the surface of a fruit shell, which serves as resonator. Cricri; 121.2 Guimbardes and Jaw harps - The lamella is mounted in a rod- or plaque-shaped frame and depends on the player's mouth cavity for resonance.
Set of bell plates, range C2–E4, a struck idiophone (played with mallets) or friction idiophone (bowed) Claves (foreground), a struck idiophone. An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).
The iconicity of ideophones is shown by the fact that people can guess the meanings of ideophones from various languages at a level above chance. [9] However, the form of ideophones does not completely relate to their meaning; as conventionalized words, they contain arbitrary, language-specific phonemes just like other parts of the vocabulary.
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Jendraschek, Gerd is a German linguist specialized in Basque, Turkish, and Iatmul (a language from the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea).He was assistant professor of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, until July 2012, and a Korea Foundation Fellow from September 2012 until August 2013.