From: | Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...> |
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Date: | Friday, November 20, 1998, 21:34 |
The way we transfer the sound of animals and other sounds from nature differs culturally... let's take an example a barking dog would sound: Arf /&@f/? or Wow /waw/ to an Anglosaxon. Guau /gwaw/ to a Spanish spoken Vov /vOv/ to a Suede... 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/ roster kikiriki' /ki.ki.ri'ki/ pig oing|oinc /oiNg/ /oiNk/ kermit ribit /'rri.bit/ bee bzz /bz:/ (odd orthography) gun shoot bang /baNg/ explosion pum /pum/ Has any conlang used onomatopeyics for genera vocabulary? -- Carlos Th