Animal noises in other languages

Roomic Cube

Always just assumed that the words for the different animal noises were the same globally, but after talking to a german friend and a polish friend of mine they have totally different words for the likes of woof for a dog and oink for a pig and so on

chicken fingers

spanish for "ribbit ribbit" (frog, toad) is "crack crack"
also hee-haw is nee-naw in spanish.

few more might come to mind later.

Roomic Cube

my polish friend said that oink oink was chlum chlum, at least I think that's what she said, it was a while ago now

Kimono-Girl

European cows are weird!!!

Fremen

Polish dogs go "How how".

French chickens say "Cookery-coo" (instead of cock-a-doodle-do, which is ridiculous when you think about it).

Lapin

French rabbits are highly intelligent and have been known to spout all sorts of priceless wisdom here on Boards.

Capt'n Midnight

two ducks flying over Norn Iron and one says to the other 'quack quack'


and the other goes 'sorry I canna go any quacker'

Unpossible

Yep, they are different in Chinese as well. I think instead of "quack quack" ducks go "gack gack" . I think chickens and dogs are different too, but must check with the missus.

Scarinae

Swedish pigs say 'Nuf nuf'

col.in.Cr

thai dogs go 'hong hong'
ducks 'bab bab

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5277090.stm

Cows also 'have regional accents'

Cows moo with a regional twang


Cow moo recordings
Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have suggested.
They decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from.

John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said regional twangs had been seen before in birds.

The farmers in Somerset who noticed the phenomenon said it may have been the result of the close bond between them and their animals.

Farmer Lloyd Green, from Glastonbury, said: "I spend a lot of time with my ones and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl.



"I've spoken to the other farmers in the West Country group and they have noticed a similar development in their own herds.

"It works the same as with dogs - the closer a farmer's bond is with his animals, the easier it is for them to pick up his accent."

Peer pressure

Prof Wells felt the accents could result from their contemporaries.

He said: "This phenomenon is well attested in birds. You find distinct chirping accents in the same species around the country.

"This could also be true of cows.

"In small populations such as herds you would encounter identifiable dialectical variations which are most affected by the immediate peer group."

Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller, reader in linguistics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, agreed that the accent could be influenced by relatives.

She said: "When we are learning to speak, we adopt a local variety of language spoken by our parents, so the same could be said about the variation in the West Country cow moo."

Can you imagine a Dublin cow talking to a cork cow or a nordie one.

MU, Mouou , MRRRR

Owen

Instead of woof woof, Polish dogs go 'how how' (Kinda sounds like barking if you say it aggressively enough), and instead of a horse going clip clop when walking, it goes pata-tie-pata-tie-pata-tie.

General General

In Korea, dogs go: sizzle sizzle.

keithg89

Le woof.

javaboy

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

WindSock

Coin coin said the French duck.

Sharpshooter

javaboy wrote: »

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

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dubtom

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

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Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

GLaDOS

dubtom wrote: »

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

Loros ahora son otra historia por completo.

benjamin d

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Loros ahora son otra historia por completo.

Loros ahora son otra historia por completo.

landsleaving

MOO!

maninasia

Unpossible wrote: »

Yep, they are different in Chinese as well. I think instead of "quack quack" ducks go "gack gack" . I think chickens and dogs are different too, but must check with the missus.

Dogs are 'wang wang'...cracks me up everytime!

Tristram

Japan:

Cat - nyaa nyaa
Horse - hihiin
Pig - buu buu (sounds like boo boo)
Frog - kero kero
Ducks- gaa gaa

Cat Melodeon

German roosters say 'kikeriki'.
Their dogs say 'wau wau'.
Pigs say 'quiek'.
I guess a Schweinehund would say wauquiek?

Donkey Oaty

A chara,

Íá íá!

Is mise le meas,

Donkey Oaty.

Lothaar v2

dubtom wrote: »

Parrots now they're a whole other story altogether.

Cows now they're a whole udder story altogether.

inforfun

French cow: Euh..... beuh.

--Kaiser--

Polish ducks go 'qval qvak'
French ducks go ' waz waz'
Spanish roosters go 'kee kee kee ke kee'

anorange

In Korea pigs go gulag-gulag, dogs go mong-mong, rabbits go toki-toki and frogs go gegur-gegur.
It's a bit strange with rabbits and frogs, cos their kinda just saying their own names(The Korean word for rabbit is toki 토끼 and the Korean word for frog is Geguri 개구리).

rokossovsky

Fishie wrote: »

Swedish pigs say 'Nuf nuf'

Irish pigs say "pull over to the kerb and blow into this bag"

pickarooney

Dutch cows sneak up on you and go Boe!

Genghiz Cohen

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Spanish roosters go 'kee kee kee ke kee'

ZERG RUSH!!!!
GET DOWN!!!

BigDuffman

I've been sitting in my office making all the noises listed on this thread. I'm now going to walk outside and will not be in anyway shocked if theres a few lads with white jackets waiting for me.

Nearly pissed myself after making noises like a Northie cow Mrrrrrrrr.

Can anyone tell me what noise a giraffe from Meath makes?

Ickle Magoo

The sheep noises in "Bah bah black sheep" in Scots Gaelic is Meh meh...

topper75

"Qweeehhaaarghghgh", said the dolphin.

BigDuffman

wwwooooooorrrrrruumpppppp went the whale.

Ikkkk iickk ika kaa went the dolphin


Nnnngllaven went the nerd.

Krusader

Irish

Cow: Mú
Dog: Bhuf Bhuf
Goat: Mé-é-é
Hen: Gú ác ác ác
Donkey: Í Á Í Á
Owl: Hú Hú