What are some animal sounds in different languages?

Question

So, of course, we can't write out the exact sounds animals make, even if those are universal. In English, cats say meow, dogs say woof, pigs say oink, cows say moo, roosters say cockadoodledoo... but around the world, what do they say?

Yes, I covered that in my question, hence the "pet sounds are universal". I'm talking about language representations of pet sounds. Otherwise this would be a pretty pointless question. :)

Answer 1

in Lithuanian:
cats say "miau"
dogs say "au"
pigs say "kriu"
cows say "mū"
roosters say "kakariekū"

Answer 2

in italy roosters say "chicchiricchiiiii", cats miao (which is kinda similar to meow), dogs go bau bau, cows go mu mu (same sound of moo moo, just different spelling), pigs go oink oink, mice go squit squit, chickens say coccodè, sheeps say bee bee (the "ee" sound is similar to the EA sound in bear), horses say iiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii (the iiiii is similar to the EE sound in deep)...hmmm I can't think of any other animal right now =)

Answer 3

In Italian, roosters say "chicchirichi'" ( the italian chi sounds like Ki in english), dogs say "bau" , cats "miao" and cows "muuuu" (sounds like moo)
:-)

Answer 4

In Spanish:
woof = guau gua
meow= miau
..... Other Sounds
knock=pam
ding dong= din don
ring= rin
tick tock= tic tac
cho cho (train) = cha-ca cha-ca
boom= bum
drum noise= rata-plan

Answer 5

In Spanish cats say miau, dogs say guau, pigs say oink, cows say muuu, roosters say kikiriqui, donkeys say jijau, sheep say beee, chicken say pio, ducks say cuack, wolves say auuu, monkeys say ukikiki.

Those are the ones I know.

Answer 6

"Animal Sounds", Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, : http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html

"Onomatopoeia" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

"What does a dog/cat say in your language?" : http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-165.html

Answer 7

They say different because we hear different. It's not that they speak different languages is that our hearing of certain sounds depends on the language we speak therefore it appears that they speak differently.

Check this out for more info:
http://gbarto.com/languages/animasounds.html

Answer 8

French roosters say : coucouricou.
Dutch roosters say : kukelekuu
Jewish roosters talk about the Palestinian problem

Answer 9

In Italian a dog says bau bau.

Answer 10

here in mexico the animals suonds like that
cat = miau
dog= gouf
pig= juih
cow=muuu
mause=iih

Answer 11

I was told by my German exchange student that the sound for a chicken was kick-a-kick-a which, when he said it, did sound much like the sound. Much closer than cluck cluck.