In your country...

[Play Outside]

Since we have some many different countries and languages represented on this forum, I thought it would be fun to find out...

...in your country, what noise does a pig make?

American pigs say "Oink, oink".

[Midge]

Yes in the UK pigs oink too.

[Mabel Figworthy]

In Holland they say knor knor, with the k pronounced

[kell]

Uk - oink or snort or snuffle, I guess.

[Mabel Figworthy]

I suppose there's always a difference between the noise people make when they try to imitate an animal, and the way it is written down (e.g. in children's books or comics). So if someone asked me to make a pig noise, I'd probably give a sort of snuffly grunt, but written down it would be "knor" (which is about as like the real sound of a pig as oink )

What do other animals say in your language?

In Dutch, a cat goes miauw
a dog goes woef or waf
a chicken goes tok tok tok
a cockerel goes kukeleku
a cow goes boe
a duck goes kwak
a mouse goes piep
a sheep goes beh
a goat goes meh
a pigeon goes roekoe
a donkey goes ia-ia (it took me years to realise that Eeyore's name was an imitation of the sound a donkey makes in English )

[Angel]

a cat goes miow or mow
a dog goes woof
a chicken goes cluck
a cockerel goes cockadoodledoo
a cow goes moo
a duck goes quack
a mouse goes squeek
a sheep goes baaaaaa
a goat goes meh
a pigeon goes coo
a donkey goes eeyore

[lwelizabeth]

a donkey goes ia-ia (it took me years to realise that Eeyore's name was an imitation of the sound a donkey makes in English )

I had no idea until you said it...

[Mabel Figworthy]

[Tia]

In the US:

cat: meow
mouse: squeak
dog: woof, arf, yap (for little dogs)
horse: neigh
donkey: hee haw
duck: quack
chick: cheep
rooster: cock-a-doodle-doo
hen: cluck
baby bird: peep
crow: caw
sheep: baaaah
cow: moo

[burgundyice]

I'm stumped on the goat one...... don't they just sound the same as a sheep???
Although I live in a rural area with cows, horses and chickens around, there are no goats!

Louise

[Mabel Figworthy]

I can't speak for other languages, but in Dutch it seems to be just the difference in first letter, and possible a slightly more pinched and nasal sound for the goat (it's a good thing I'm alone here -- sitting at my computer making sheep and goat noises to compare them ! )

By the way, I don't think the goats and sheep take a blind bit of notice how we write their sound down, they just do their own thing

[Nachstenliebe]

my baby would be so confused right now haha. She just started calling animals by the sound they make lol.
Faith

[Rose]

I can't speak for other languages, but in Dutch it seems to be just the difference in first letter, and possible a slightly more pinched and nasal sound for the goat (it's a good thing I'm alone here -- sitting at my computer making sheep and goat noises to compare them ! )

By the way, I don't think the goats and sheep take a blind bit of notice how we write their sound down, they just do their own thing

Mabel I have this vision of the postman standing outside your door ready to drop the post in the slot, with a very confused look on his face as to why the nice lady he delivers loads of stash to has finally flipped her cookies and is setting in the house making all sorts of animal sounds.

[Angel]

hehe poor Mabels postman

[coffee_freak]

ok let's do something else..

in my country they say friend..

[*barb*]

I'm so far behind, but from the first post, in Australia, piga say " lalala". I saw it on the movie " Babe"

[Boudicca]

It was funny trying to find out some sounds in English, my Dutch guy helped me with those sounds are sound in Dutch, and the way you pronounce the "r" the pigeon, it sound exactly like the pigeons make

Anyway I will tell some sounds are made in Spanish:

dog - guau
cat - miau
chicken - pio
rooster - kikirikii
cow - muuu
fish - glup, glup
sheep - bee
bee - bzzz
pig - oink
duck - cuac
cricket - cri, cri

btw, these are called onomatopeyas

[Mabel Figworthy]

in Australia, pigs say " lalala". I saw it on the movie " Babe"

[burgundyice]

I seem to remember from a linguistics book that cats in Japan say "yim-yim", thought was cute

Louise

[summernight]

Boudica, it's all good!!! In spanish is like that.