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Innerworld@lemmy.world to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 17 days ago

How different countries and languages represent barking dog sound in words

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Innerworld@lemmy.world to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 17 days ago
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    Fun! Source article also covers meows.

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      Interesting how the cat sound is almost the same in most languages, but the dog sound varies a lot

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      How did they get it so wrong? “Mjan” doesn’t even exist in Swedish, it should be mjau.

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      Thank you!

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      Well the Korean dogs seem to be meowing as is

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      Good find! Thanks

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