animal para-linguistics

(actually d'oh i forgot to check how to spell that so it might kwak or something: OMAR to thread!!)

But also Nath, Sundar, Kodanshi, Kris, Nitsuh, Honda, youn, N., Emma's mom...

It appears that Finnish cats say "naukua". Er, oh no, that's a verb. They don't say it at all, they just do it. Or something. And I can't find my Finnish comic. *weep*

Teenage filipino bears say, "I'm saving up so I can get my paws chromed out!"

*JUST KIDDING* ::ducks::

Brit cockerel: "cock-a-doodle-do!"
Spanish cockerel: "Qui Qui Ri Qui!" (thanks Brian, you didn't "have a farm" in days of yore by any chance?)
Greek cockerel: ????
Korean cockerel: ???

Rebecca that is PRECISELY what I wanted, thank you. Do English, Dutch, French and Ancient Greek frogs say exactly the same thing and we WRITE it ifferently, or the same-ish thing but they PRONOUNCE it differently, or DIFFERET THINGS because animals too have different regional tongues?

I think the Supersense program ages ago said something about bird accents being a key way of them recognising their flock if they get lost.

eg UK GUN: "Bang!"
BELGIAN GUN: "Pan!" or (sometimes) "Crac!"

More evidence from ILx poster please, esp. if not yet gathered by the Georgetown ideologues...

For a Bullfrog to understand what an Amazonian Leaf Frog was saying would surely be the same as me understanding what Chimpanzee was saying. And if I could talk to the animals - what a great thing that would be.

Dogs: 'woef, woef'
Cats: 'miauw'
Cows: 'boe'
Chickens: 'tok'
Cockerels: 'kukeleku'
Frogs: 'kwak'
Mice 'piep'
Ducks 'kwaak'
pigs 'knor'
Small Birds 'tsilp'

thank you stevo

That said I ditch Biology at 12 so this is just a-wondering.

Polish dogs say how how.

Like ZZ Top and John Lee Hooker?

German roosters kikeriki.
German cuckoo kuckuck.
German parrots krächzen.

Finnish ones...

Dog: Hau hau!
Cat: Miau!
Bird: Tsirp tsirp!
Hen: Kotkot!
Cow: Ammuu!
Horse: Ihahaa!
Rooster: Kukkokiekuu!
Sheep: Bää!
Duck: Kvaak kvaak!
Cuckoo: Kukkuu!

Japanese:

Dog - Won! Won!
Cat - Neow
Rooster - Kok kok ko key ko (or something like that)
Frog - Kero Kero

finnish & japanese roosters have been hanging out!

Seems like that. Though in Finnish "a rooster" = "kukko", and the verb for the sound he makes = "kiekuu". I dunno if the two words are based on the onomatopoetics, or the other way around.

http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html
look what i found on the google!

the British croak is prolly closer than the American ribbit for frogs *in general* - there is one particular species of frog that goes 'ribbit' (can't remember which, it lives in California I think)

This was the upshot of the original research by the way:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1231170,00.html

Rooster: Kukkokiekuu

Wasn't he the 1983 world rally champion?

Japanese:

Dog - Won! Won!
Cat - Neow
Rooster - Kok kok ko key ko (or something like that)
Frog - Kero Kero

-- fritz, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 17:58 (2 days ago)

for dog i hear it more as "wan wan" but for cat it's definitely more "nyan nyan".

Oh man, Maria, that page is great!

GERMAN:

Dog (gnawing bone) - chrong
Dog (drinking) - schlapp schlapp

HUNGARIAN:

Dog (drinking) - lefety lefety
Dog (biting) - gnam
Cat purring - doromb

lefety lefety

fuck you static ILX handles!

I would really love to see a comic panel of a dog biting a man illustrated with a big bubble-letters GNAM!

grumph, baraag, peent, troat

According to Maria's link those are the sounds made by a camel ('nuzzing', of course), an elephant trumpeting, a woodcock, and a deer...*in English*. I can guarantee I've never made those sounds. Mind you, with the exception of the elephant, I haven't felt the need to impersonate those animals.

This is the best I can write the word I say when I imitate an elephant sound:

FrrrrnNEEEEERummmmm

I think it's more like bbbrrrraiaoaoaoaaoaorr. Just to clarify my earlier comments: I don't think I've ever felt the *need* to impersonate an elephant, more just a strong and occasional desire.

In French

Dog: ouaf ouaf
Cat: Miaou!
Bird: cui cui
Hen: cot cot codek
Cow: meuuuuuuuuuuuuh!
Rooster: cocorico!
Sheep: meeeeh!
Duck: coin coin!
Cuckoo: coucou!
Donkey : hi han

What does a nuzzing camel say in French?

I'm off to the zoo then, because inquiring minds WANT to know.

PS : what is nuzzing?