From: Adam Walker (carrajena@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 19:55:37 EST
Yesterday I started working on onomatopoeia for animal
sounds with the aid of a web site designed by someone
over on the ENFP list. They have gathered the sounds
that familiar creatures "make" in numerous languages
from Afrikaans to Vietnamese at
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html
and organized them both by language and by animal. As
soon as I found the sound birds make (piu-piu
tuid-tuid) I realized that this is also the sound of
Florentines talking. That made me think, what other
languages were lurking out there among the animal
sounds?
Animal sound foreign language
bird piu-piu tuid-tuid Florentine
cat miau-miau French (miau-miau-friau)
angry cat fid-fid-friau
duck guad-guad Arabic (guad-guad
vizz-vizz)
bee vizz/vzz
fly tizz/tzz
donkey ii-hau English
cow mbuu
crow crau-crau Greek
sheep ba-a-a
goat me-e-e
snake siss/sss
dog bau-bau/hav-hav Turkish (bau-bau hav-hav)
pig grang-grang
Just because your languge has not been insulted in
this post doesn't mean uls Carrajus don't associate
your speech with some animal noise. It only means
that I haven't learnd in what way they disparage you.
At least I know they think *I* sound like a donkey.
Sheesh! What friendly people.
Adam
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