Kimow
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| Kimow | |
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| Kimau[1] | |
| kimow | |
| Pronunciation | [kʰím.ôʊ] [kʰǐm.ɑ̄w] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2024 |
language isolate
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Standard form | Standard Igkin Kimo
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Dialects |
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Kimow is a language isolate that is notorious for the fact that the majority of its words are homonyms, meaning they have various meanings. For example, the name of the language, Kimow, can mean "Kimow"(adj.), "the Kimow language", "the Kimow people", "an ethnic Kimow", "a Kimow speaker(so not necessarily an ethnic Kimow)", "a member of the Kimow diaspora", "Kimow food" or "a Kimow city". There are also only two main dialects, the Kimo and the Wakki, and their homonymic meanings differ greatly at times, making mutual understanding difficult. Tone and phonology vary slightly as well, though not as greatly and are thus more mutually intelligible.