>From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:43:28 -0400
>
>On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> > Finally, the paper on onomatopoetic animal sounds is done.
> > On request I've translated the material into English and
> > uploaded it to my site. The address is:
> >
> >
http://www.geocities.com/conlangus/onomato.html
> >
> > A big thank you to all you who helped me out by
> > volunteering as consultants.
> >
> > So what do you think?
>
>Neat! I haven't gotten to look at your data in anything resembling
>detail, but it's sure interesting stuff (and, I'm sure, inspirational for
>conlanging animal onomatopoeia, if I've spelled that right...).
>
>Now, is there any correlation between animal *names* and the
>sounds/verbs? In Korean, cat is "goyangi" and the sound a cat makes is
>"yaong"; a magpie is "kkach'i" and its cry is "kka kka kka"; OTOH a dog
>is a "gae" and its barking is "meong meong," so the correlation falls
>apart...
>
>YHL