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Re: NATLANG? Animal talk

From:Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>
Date:Saturday, January 4, 2003, 17:41
Zesefde Pavel Iosad  <pavel_iosad@...> ta 2003.01.04. her 18:50:10 +3h:

> Hello: > > > > I've always found it odd that German IIRC has no word > > > for what pigs say (viz.: "oink"). It's so salient in English that > > > I'd think every culture with pigs would have one. > > > > A Dutch pig does "knor", and the verb is "knorren". > > Hm. A Russian pig goes [xr_ju], and the verb is "xryukat'" >
Hungarinan pigs say "röf" where ö is a front o. (I am lazy to look for the sampa one) -- Mau Ábrahám Zsófia alias Mau Rauszer | http://www.hiaqimau.tk | http://www.longwer.tk | "Yú lawe ta mau yibali taqe yamissi qi u neb dagu tawiy iq." -- Kipling