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| tomtro Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4523 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 20 10 January 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged |
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I find it interesting, how the onomatopoeic equivalent of dog's barking differs in some languages. For example, in Polish dogs bark "hau hau", in English "wof wof", in German "wau wau", in Russian "gaw gaw", in Lithuanian (reportedly) "aw aw".
And how do dogs bark in Your language? And do you know something about the etymology of those onomatopoeias, have any ideas what is the reason of those differences? And do you like dogs? Lets talk about dogs, they are fascinating pets :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5146 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 20 10 January 2012 at 8:20am | IP Logged |
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We are with the English on this one, as barking in Norwegian is written voff, voff, and a dog in addition to "
hund" which is the official name, also can be called "vofse", to recall the barking sound. Dogs otherwise are like children. You get all kinds... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5276 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 3 of 20 10 January 2012 at 9:02am | IP Logged |
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In Japanese dogs say ワンワン ("wan wan"), and the baby word for a dog (which, come to think of it, is actually used very often by adults too) is ワンちゃん ("wan chan").
I know the Georgian verb "bark", which is ყეფს (q'eps), but I don't know what dogs say when they bark in Georgian. I'm curious to know now so I'll ask my teacher tonight. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4700 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 4 of 20 10 January 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged |
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In the UK we tend to say "woof woof". I love that even animals have their own language :o)
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6394 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 20 10 January 2012 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
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In Mandarin, it's 汪汪 (wang1wang1). In Cantonese, it's 㕵㕵 (wou1 wou1). By the sound of it, the dogs are much
bigger in the south! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5308 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 20 10 January 2012 at 11:33am | IP Logged |
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Czech dogs say "haf haf". And we have an alternative name for a dog (oficially "pes"): hafan.
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| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4744 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 7 of 20 10 January 2012 at 12:11pm | IP Logged |
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I talk to my dog in japanese and English, never in mandarin or cantonese ....kinda pathetic.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5147 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 8 of 20 10 January 2012 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
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In Dutch, the verb used is blaffen and the sound is called waf or
woef. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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