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Bakweri Word Games

Jean-Marie Hombert, 1973, "Speaking backwards in Bakwiri", Studies in African Linguistics 4, pp. 277-35

This paper presents a word game played by Young Bakwiri speakers on the southern slopes of Mount Cameroon. The game consists basically of taking the last syllable of a word and transposing it before the first one.

http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/PDF/hombert/SpeakingbackwardsinB.pdf

Posted on Monday, February 16, 2004 at 02:47 PM in Language | Permalink

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