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Animal sounds in different languages

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A highly amusing chart of animal sounds in different languages. Brilliant!

(via novaclutch / via notcot)

June 18, 2008 in kids stuff, made me smile |

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The portuguese column is almost empty and almost always wrong. Also, it's written "portugese" instead of "portuguese". Brrrr...

Posted by: Bruno Nery | June 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM

hahaha, amuzing indeed: both types of Portuguese cocks make "COCOROCOCOOO", not "cucurucucu".

:O

Posted by: tomé | June 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Hi, thanks for posting this! It's such an interesting find. I actually emailed it to a linguistic professor of mine who tried to explain Ferdinand de Saussure's concept of the signified/signifier across different languages. I really enjoy your blog, thank you again! -Christine

Posted by: Christine | June 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM

have a look at bzzpeek,
a collection of sounds using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of mainly animals & vehicles.
it´s fun...
http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html

Posted by: nicole | June 18, 2008 at 01:00 PM

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hahaha. that made me laugh!
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thank you and woohoo!
d.

Posted by: Dr. Woohoo! | June 18, 2008 at 01:35 PM

The danish ones aren't exactly right either.. Especially the "Bird(medium)" doesn't make sense..

Posted by: Benjamin A. Wendelboe | June 18, 2008 at 03:16 PM

Mmh...not too accurate, haha. A bee droning in dutch would be "zoem" not "buzz"...funny concept tho.

Posted by: Adrian | June 19, 2008 at 02:08 AM

Pretty interesting stuff. There's no Chinese animals on the list though... maybe they all got eaten!!! :P Puaahahahaha!!! JUST KIDDING!!!

Seriously though, that maybe a little difficult to achieve, 'cause we've got so many different dialects! Which, in itself could also be interesting to see.

Posted by: M Chang | June 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM

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