January 9, 2003

Today is the day to tie somebody to the tracks.

Which of These Animal Sound Translations Are Real And Which Did I Make Up?

Dog:
Albanian: ham ham / hum hum
Arabic (Algeria): haw haw
Bengali: tee hee
Catalan: bup, bup
Chinese (Mandarin): wang wang
Croatian: ah-choo
Estonian: auh
Finnish: hmm....
French: ouah ouah
Greek: a-wooga, a-wooga
Korean: mung-mung (/wang-wang)
Thai: hoang hoang (with falling tone)
Turkish: hi!

Duck:
Danish: rap
Dutch: yo!
Estonian: prääks prääks
French: coin coin
Hebrew: ga ga ga
Hungarian: yee-haw!
Japanese: gaagaa
Korean: give it here.
Thai: gaab gaab (with falling tone)
Turkish: And then I says to Maybel, I says...

Owl:
Japanese: hoo
Korean: buung-buung
Norwegian: uhu
Russian: sova ukhaet.
Spanish (Spain): good evening.

Dove:
Afrikaans: Duiwe koer.
Danish: kurre-kurre
Dutch: roekoe
English: coo
Esperanto: Kolomboj rukulas.
Estonian: kulu-kulu
Finnish: Kyyhkynen kujertaa.
French: Le pigeon roucoule.
Hindi: guturgu:-guturgu:
Hungarian: A galamb búg.
Indonesian: kur
Japanese: poppo poppo (/kukku kukku)
Korean: goo-goo
Norwegian: Dua kurrer.
Polish: gruhu, gruhu
Russian: golub' vorkuet.
Spanish (Spain): Nobody understands me.
Swedish: Duvan kuttrar.
Thai: ju hook kruu

Chick:
Albanian: ciu ciu
Arabic (Algeria): twit twit
Catalan: hey, jerkoff
Croatian: piiiiii
Danish: poooo
Esperanto: pep
Estonian: rah!
Greek: ko-ko-ko
Hebrew: Efrochim metzaytzim.
Hungarian: csip-csip
Indonesian: I scream, you scream
Russian: tsyplyata pishchat.
Slovene: we all scream
Thai: for ice scream (with high tone)

(For answers, turn to Georgetown's own source.)