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.
Hi
in Russian:
dog : [gAf-gAf-gAf] (‘A’ as in ‘stuff’)
pig : [hr’u-hr’u] (with soft ‘r’ and ‘u’ as in ‘union’]
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: !
… and Ku-kA-re-kU-u-u-u-u in Russian
Interesting!
P.S. But can I use cry for such special sounds as grunting? Or meowing/purring?
By the way, what about Japanese cock’s cry? (I mean another left-side island ).
Does anybody knows?
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 .
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)