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Re: animal sounds

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, October 25, 2004, 17:33
Charlie "caeruleancentaur" wrote:

> Do the conlangs of any of you have animal sounds in the vocabulary? >
Just a few so far in Kash: eñe (usu. repeated eñeñeñeñe...) the bleating sound made by lopas (= sheep/goat); yeñe to bleat; of humans, to sound like a lopa bleating when wheedling or insisting (Cindu's fauna are not too much thought out...) ñar to roar kruñ ~kukruñ; ruñur to growl rondoñ ~rondroñ to purr of certain animals muru-muru to purr, of certain other animals (possibly related to pumuru 'thunder') We also distinguish: lali to sing, of certain flying "lizards" and children (high-pitch) vs. rinjura 'to sing, of the adult human voice'