In Gbaya, the notion of clearness of the “eyes (that) are like doves” in Song of Songs 5:12 is emphasized with ŋgɛ́lɛ́lɛ́, an ideophone used to describe something very clear and pure. Note that the “doves” are substituted with “herons that land over the water.”

The notion of the white color (“like milk”) is emphasized with kàlàkùlɛ̀ɛ̀, an ideophone used to to specifically describe something that is white as milk.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. Since the subject matter of Songs of Songs is particularly conducive to the use of ideophones, there are a total of 30 ideophones in the Gbaya Bible in that short biblical book alone. (Source: Philip Noss)

See also eyes are doves / flock of goats and snow (color).