several people crying and/or shouting

In Gbaya, the notion of several people crying and/or shouting in the associated verses is emphasized with the ideophone ŋgúr-ŋgúr, which refers to several people crying and shouting at the same time.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

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