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Posted by Cosmo on May-10-2002 18:59:

The world of difference

quote:
Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently.

Dog

Afrikaans: woef
Albanian: ham ham / hum hum
Arabic (Algeria): haw haw
Bengali: ghaue-ghaue
Catalan: bup, bup
Chinese (Mandarin): wang wang
Croatian: vau-vau
Danish: vov
Dutch: woef
English: bow wow, arf, woof, ruff ruff
English (Old English): Hund byrc�.
Esperanto: boj
Estonian: auh
Finnish: hau hau /vuh vuh
French: ouah ouah
German: wau wau, wuff wuff
Greek: gav
Hebrew: haw haw (/hav hav)
Hindi: bho:-bho:
Hungarian: vau-vau
Icelandic: voff
Indonesian: gonggong
Italian: bau bau
Japanese: wanwan, kyankyan
Korean: mung-mung (/wang-wang)
Norwegian: voff / vov-vov
Polish: hau hau
Portuguese (Portugal): au au au (nasal diphthong)
Portuguese (Brazil): au-au
Russian: gav-gav
Slovene: hov-hov
Spanish (Spain, Argentina): guau guau
Swedish: vov vov
Thai: hoang hoang (with falling tone)
Turkish: hav, hav
Ukrainian: haf-haf
Vietnamese: wau wau

http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/

Posted by mindshooter on May-11-2002 00:08:

Re: The world of difference

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Originally posted by Cosmo
Swedish: vov vov

Hmm...i would rather say we prounounce it "voff-voff" really
But i think you may right "vov-vov"...

Kinda cool fact anyway

Posted by Munken on May-11-2002 01:42:

vof-vof is also danish... hmmm i think i'm bored.

Posted by DJ Teknique on May-11-2002 06:52:

cats are pretty much the same everywhereeeeeee

Posted by DjChook on May-11-2002 10:24:

Re: The world of difference

quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo

Dog
Hebrew: haw haw (/hav hav)

A-N-A-K (Awsome)