Being rather bored i thought i would look up the differing ways to say animal noises around the world. Wasnt actually as easy as i thought but i finally managed to find this interview and rather amusing video so i thought i would share. Some really odd ones from Japan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVOwJfim6s

And the researchers website with a list of animals and their sounds. http://www.eleceng.adelaide.ed ... sonal/dabbott/animal.html

From reading Asterix comics, I know french trumpets go 'Pon'

got suprised how the hell can they think a cat miauing say this
Cat mewing miav miauw meow miau miaou miau miaou miyau miau miau nyan nyan/
nyaa nyaa

miyau miao mjan mjan miyav meow

In Czech Republic it is like this:
cow - bú
dog - haf
sheep - bé
pig - (we don't have any real sounds but I can say "uí" or "chro" )
bird - píp
bee - bzzz
cock - kykyryký or kikirikí
goat - mé

BTW in the video there was no Czech at all

Experienced this for the first time a couple of years back when talking about German cows. They make the same sound as here in the UK, but they spell i differently.

Ours say "moo" but German cows say "muh"

Quote from Dajmin :

Experienced this for the first time a couple of years back when talking about German cows.

I at first read that "talking with German cows"

.... Though talking about German cows is not any smarter? Reminds me of a few agricultural guys in Germany talking about what they specialize in. It happened so that the guys raised pigs. The dictionary word they used for raising (Erziehung {die}) was "upbringing" or "nurture"

In Irish, pigs go "Here, have some death"

Quote from Dajmin :

Experienced this for the first time a couple of years back when talking about German cows. They make the same sound as here in the UK, but they spell i differently.

Ours say "moo" but German cows say "muh"

Animal sounds should be universal.

All cows go Moo. That's a known fact.


LOL AT OP'S translated table thing.

Horses go "hi hi" apparently.

Dutch phonetics are different to English ones, so you'll probably have a different idea of what we mean.

I spotted an error: the Dutch command for asking a dog to fetch a stick is not raport but aport.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Animal sounds should be universal.

All cows go Moo. That's a known fact.

No, cows say MUU and sheeps go PÄÄ you imbecile.

Muh! Mäh!

Quote from Blackout :

No, cows say MUU and sheeps go PÄÄ you imbecile.

But ducks still go quack.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

But ducks still go quack.

no they don't.

/head in hands
We can put men on the moon but we can't agree on the sound a duck makes. Our race is doomed to fail.

A duck's quack has no echo, and no-body really knows why.

EDIT: haha, fail... http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp

oops.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

A duck's quack has no echo, and no-body really knows why.

You actually believe stuff like that?

Well, not any more.

Dog - auh auh
Cat - mjäu
Cow - ammuuu or muuuu
Sheep - määäää
Pig - röhh röhh
Rooster - kikerikiiiiiii
Duck - prääks
Mouse - piiks piiks

MOO QUACK.