Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> a barking dog would sound:
>   Arf /&@f/? or Wow /waw/ to an Anglosaxon.
The pronunciation of 'arf' is something like /arf/ (/^rf/ in my
dialect). 'Wow' to the best of my knowledge is only used with 'bow',
i.e. 'bow wow' /baw'waw/ (although I have never thought that sounded
anything like a dog!) In addition, we also say 'woof' /wUf/ and 'ruff'
/r^f/.

> And a lot of different sounds for different cultures.  I would like to
> know how the following onomatopeyics are render in different
> nat/conlangs...
>
>    animal     onomatopeyic
>  description     sound
> (in English)  (in Spanish)
>     dog         guau      /gwaw/
>     cat         miau      /mjaw/
In English, 'meow' /mi'aw/ or 'mew' /mju/
>     roster      kikiriki' /ki.ki.ri'ki/
In English, 'cock-a-doodle-doo' (long and funny-sounding!)
/kak.@.du.d@l'du:/
>     pig         oing|oinc /oiNg/ /oiNk/
In English, 'oink' /oiNk/
>     kermit      ribit     /'rri.bit/
You mean a frog, right? :D In English, 'ribbit' /'rI.bIt/
In Japanese, I believe it's 'gero gero gero' /'ge.Ro 'ge.Ro 'ge.Ro/
>     bee         bzz       /bz:/ (odd orthography)
In English, I guess 'buzz' /b^z/ or possibly 'bzz' /bz:/ with a
syllabic /z/
>     gun shoot   bang      /baNg/
In English, same spelling, but pronounced /b&N/
>     explosion   pum       /pum/
In English, 'boom' /bum/