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Gwa m, gwa m, gwa m…

Gwa m dum, gwa m yom

“Tell me dum, tell me yom”

The answer

ike nkwu na igu nkwu

(the head of the palm fruit and the palm fronds) — Onomatopoeic/tone riddle: the nonsense sounds imitate the answer's tonal contour

Echebima 2021, African Journal of Language Research 3(1&2)

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