Some claims about Tarok
ideophones
n1.
They cannot be distinguished from adverbs morphologically or syntactically
n2. are not morphologically distinct from the
main Tarok lexicon
n3. have no unusual phonological properties
n4. are not tonally distinct from similar
non-ideophones
n5. have etymologies that can only very rarely be
discerned
n6. constitute a fixed set of forms known to all
competent speakers
n7. Therefore, if they are to be distinguished as
a word-type it is only through
semantics