Triplication and ideophones in Chintang

It is generally observed that most of the Kiranti languages have relatively few monomorphemic adverbs. What is common instead is adverbs based on reduplication or triplication and involving regular or ideophonic (onomatopoetic) roots. In this paper we discuss triplication in Chintang. Triplication has been discussed only for a few languages, for example in Bantawa (Rai & Winter 1997), another Kiranti language, and in Tibetan (Uray 1954) and the Austronesian language Thao (Blust 2001).