So so similar

The concept of ‘so-so’ is found in many languages, and often in a similarly repetitive form:

it’s tako tako in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian,
aixa aixa in Catalan,
cosi cosi in Italian,
wale wale in Chipwyan (Canada),
hanter hanter in Cornisa,
thik thik in Gujarati (India),
hai hao in Mandarin,
jako tako in Polish,
ma ma in Japanese,
ithin ithin in Sinhala (Sri Lanka),
soyle boyle in turkish,
atal atal in Occitan (France),
asina asina in Asturias (Spain),
elae belae in Azeri (Azerbaijan)
and azoy azoy in Yiddish.