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Re: Animal noises

From:Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
Date:Saturday, October 13, 2007, 15:06
Japanese dogs say "wan wan", and cats say "niau"  (actually very close to English "meow").
 
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:24:18 +0100> From: geoffhorswood@YAHOO.CO.UK> Subject: > Animal noises> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu> > I was attempting to > translate one of my 2-year-old's> children's books into Franj, and ran into a > bit of a> problem:> > Animal noises.> > Now, most of these will be > onomatopoeic, but ISTR that> in particular, dogs and pigs make the most > bizarre> variations of sound (eg dogs in English say "woof> woof", "bow wow", > "bark" or "arf", whereas in Korean> they go "mung mung").> > So, how should > dogs, pigs and other animals go?> > Anyone want to shate their animal noises > in nat- or> conlangs?> > Geoff> > =====> > Lost in thought - please send out > search party> > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html
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