I love this kind of stuff.
Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. English and French cows sound the same, but not in English and French! Explore the sounds of the world’s languages through the sounds of the world’s animals.
Example:
- Afrikaans: moe-moe
- Albanian: mu
- Arabic (Algeria): mooooooo
- Bengali: hamba
- Catalan: muuuu
- Chinese (Mandarin): mu mu
- Croatian: muuuu
- Danish: muh
- Dutch: boeh
- English: moo
- English (Old English): Oxa hlewð.
- Esperanto: muu
- Estonian: muu
- Finnish: ammuu
- French: meuh
- German: mmuuh
- Greek: moo
- Hebrew: moo
- Hindi: mo:-mo:
This information comes from the website of:
Catherine N. Ball
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
ballc@georgetown.edu
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/
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