In Gbaya, the notion of the long fringes in Matthew 23:5 is emphasized with wɛzɛ-wɛzɛ, an ideophone that denotes something long, such as long, skinny fingers, or long dresses or earrings.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
See also fringe / tzitzvit and suspended.