When Does A Cow Not Say Moo

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/