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Animal Sounds & Related Words

Have you ever noticed that different languages use different words to mimic or describe animal sounds? A professor in Adelaide has made a compilation of the sounds for animal sounds in different languages - you can find it here, complete with some common commands as well.

I can only speak for the German bits, where there's actually more sounds that can be used; at least I have heard other sounds as well in German language. In some cases, there's also a difference between mimicking the sound and describing it, and the table seems to mix both of them in some cases. I find it very interesting, though, and quite amusing to learn that French pigs go "groin groin"!
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Heather on Montag, 05. Oktober 2020 16:37

And for sounds that objects make.

Listening to English vs German nursery rhymes, bells go 'ding, dang, dong' or 'bim, bam, bom', while clocks go 'tick, tock' or 'tick, tack'.

Buses still go 'beep'. Perhaps later inventions make universal sounds?

And for sounds that objects make. Listening to English vs German nursery rhymes, bells go 'ding, dang, dong' or 'bim, bam, bom', while clocks go 'tick, tock' or 'tick, tack'. Buses still go 'beep'. Perhaps later inventions make universal sounds?
Katrin on Dienstag, 06. Oktober 2020 13:55

Buses go "beep"?

Buses go "beep"?
Harma on Dienstag, 06. Oktober 2020 15:40

When he learned to talk, my oldest son called big trucks "Woussssh" - ou like in house, but a very elongated sh sound at the end. That was how he thought they sounded.

When he learned to talk, my oldest son called big trucks "Woussssh" - ou like in house, but a very elongated sh sound at the end. That was how he thought they sounded.
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