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Sounds of the World's Animals #1 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 22:38 pm   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. Do you know why?

How do you express the sound of a pig or a dog in your native language. Let's compare.
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Sounds of the World's Animals #2 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:32 am   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

Hi

in Russian:

dog : [gAf-gAf-gAf] ('A' as in 'stuff')
pig : [hr’u-hr’u] (with soft 'r' and 'u' as in 'union']
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Sounds of the World's Animals #3 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:42 am   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

The one I've always found very funny is the cock's cry in English: cock-a-doodle-doo. Its Spanish counterpart is 'quiquiriqui' (similar to the German Kikeriki) -- the French cocks say 'cocorico'. A Spanish dog says 'guau' (young children call it 'wow wow') and a bird here sings 'pio pio' (peeoh peeoh).

Even animals speak languages!

PS: I like the Russian pigs' cry, Tamara :lol: !
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Sounds of the World's Animals #4 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:49 am   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

Conchita wrote:
to the German Kikeriki) -- the French cocks say 'cocorico'.

... and Ku-kA-re-kU-u-u-u-u in Russian

Interesting!

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PS: I like the Russian pigs' cry, Tamara :lol: !
:)

P.S. But can I use cry for such special sounds as grunting? Or meowing/purring?
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Japanese cock’s cry? #5 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 18:52 pm   Japanese cock’s cry?
 

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in English: cock-a-doodle-doo.

By the way, what about Japanese cock’s cry? (I mean another left-side island :) ).
Does anybody knows?
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Sounds of the World's Animals #6 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 22:16 pm   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

Tamara wrote:
P.S. But can I use cry for such special sounds as grunting? Or meowing/purring?


A cry is the characteristic call or noise of an animal. As far as I know, it refers to all kinds of animals, including us so called humans :) .
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Sounds of the World's Animals #7 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 22:24 pm   Sounds of the World's Animals
 

Hi Tamara,

The sound or cry of a cock ( we are still talking about animals :-)) in Japanese is:

Japanese: kokekokkoo

Pig sound is: buubuu

Dog sound is: wanwan, kyankyan

Pigeon sound is: poppo poppo (/kukku kukku)
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