Why Do Animals Make Different Sounds in Different Languages?

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  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

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  • @ZeitGeist_TV
    @ZeitGeist_TV 9 лет назад +137

    So cats are the only universally understood animal.

    • @blakethelegend2319
      @blakethelegend2319 8 лет назад +6

      No

    • @chricechiu3673
      @chricechiu3673 6 лет назад +5

      Fun fact! In Chinese a cat it a /mau/, and a meow is a /mjau/. This might be the closest you'll get to having a pokemon.

  • @ismailsaidmutlu
    @ismailsaidmutlu 6 лет назад +28

    Wow, while i was watching the video, i was thinking "man, what was the pig noise in Turkish, why i can't remember" and it drove me crazy. Then this video said "there is no pig sound in Turkish", and i realize and said "really, that's right. Why i wouldn't noticed is before"
    Thank you for that beautiful informations and make me aware.

  • @williamtoner8674
    @williamtoner8674 4 года назад +7

    Apparently there are no sufficiently recognisable landmarks in Denmark lol

  • @Hoehlenmaensch
    @Hoehlenmaensch 8 лет назад +18

    Love how Italian "sounds" are just spelled different, or miss one letter fewer than in german.

  • @Odysseus201
    @Odysseus201 8 лет назад +105

    But what does the fox say?

  • @BolshephobicBabe
    @BolshephobicBabe 4 года назад +3

    I actually wondered about this way back when I started learning chinese and the word for cat sounds like a cat sound and I wondered how different languages expressed animal sounds, so thanks for the video!

  • @edgarsandoval289
    @edgarsandoval289 8 лет назад +29

    lmao at the Russian rooster.

    • @cantproducemyownnick
      @cantproducemyownnick 8 лет назад +9

      The accent should fall on the last syllable, so it's kukareKU, not kukaREku :)

    • @teawmarina7722
      @teawmarina7722 7 лет назад +5

      Edgar Sandoval in my language rooster is a little bit diffrent in my language it goes kukuriku xD

  • @vikingsailorboy
    @vikingsailorboy 8 лет назад +14

    I would love it if you could do one on "Why people's names are different" in different countries. It drives me nuts having to explain that to monolingual Americans a lot. It's very similar to this episode and the "Why there are different names for Germany". It also comes into what sounds your language permits you to have, and as they were translating the Bible and spreading Christian names throughout Europe, they tended to evolve a local flare easy to pronounce in local languages. But people STILL don't seem to get it and can't understand that Thomas - Tomasz, Tamas, Tomáš, etc. or John, Jan, Ivan, Johann, Janusz are all equivalents of the same name. Basically most uneducated, isolated villagers who never traveled more than 30km from their birthplace couldn't speak Greek/Hebrew during the Dark Ages lol

  • @Escviitash
    @Escviitash 9 лет назад +3

    In danish we do not have a word for the sound "neigh". Vrinsk is the action.
    We do however have a word for the sound of their heavy outburst of air: "Pru" or "Pruh". But here we do not have a word for the action.
    And for dogs we mainly say that dogs say "Vov". But to get closer to denoting the pitch we sometimes use: "Vov" (Low pitch) , Vuf (Medium pitch) and "Vif" (High pitch).
    and mostly we do spell the cats sound "Miav"

  • @Apokalypse456
    @Apokalypse456 4 года назад +3

    interestingly seemingly all european languages converged on some form of Kikeriki for a rooster, and then there is english.. cock a doodel doo doesnt even sound close lol

  • @reginaldlovegood6500
    @reginaldlovegood6500 4 года назад +2

    nobody wore those red hats for almost 100 years in turkey

  • @kasane1337
    @kasane1337 7 лет назад +4

    "Rap rap" and "Groin groin" are my favourite.

  • @yogevbocher3603
    @yogevbocher3603 8 лет назад +9

    Didn't know the Italian roosters speak German ;-)

  • @westminstercovenanter912
    @westminstercovenanter912 7 лет назад +1

    What could be more fun than animal sounds? Great distinction between imitating sounds and naming them!

  • @amandaegeskovhald8222
    @amandaegeskovhald8222 7 лет назад +3

    Danish has the best rooster I've heard so far. Not all our animal sounds are good, but we _nailed_ the rooster. The danish "y" is perfect for it. It's similar in sound to ü.

  • @adelka7399
    @adelka7399 4 года назад +3

    In kurdish in addition to the sound's name; there is a verb for every pet's sound.
    for example: in english dog barks and in kurdish dog "aware". some of this verbs are:
    for horse ahilne
    cow aqorne
    sheep aqarne
    goat aqalne
    cat amiawne
    dog aware
    chicken ajroukne
    rooster aqouqne
    snake akifne,afishne
    man aqerne
    woman aqizhne
    child azerne
    donkey asarne
    boar ashakhne
    even lion anarne
    and etc

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna 3 года назад

      Most of the animal sounds have verbs in Swedish as well.
      Horse: Gnägga
      Sheep/Goats: Bräka
      Cow: Råma
      Dog: Skälla
      Cat: Jama
      Rooster: Gala
      Snake: Väsa
      Donkey: Skria
      Boar: Grymta
      Lion: Ryta

  • @BronzeEleven
    @BronzeEleven 4 года назад +1

    My cat: Meow
    French cat: ✨✨🌼Miaou🌼✨✨

  • @elanimalbcc
    @elanimalbcc 9 лет назад +6

    I Like the serious way to treat this, very nice video

  • @GunesBloedorn
    @GunesBloedorn 9 лет назад +20

    pig doesn't make any sound in Turkish one, he hehehe good catch :)

    • @quietcorner293
      @quietcorner293 4 года назад +3

      Makes sense as pigs are not going to be farm animals in a Muslim country. They might have wild boar but I don't think there are sounds associated with them.

  • @TaiFerret
    @TaiFerret 6 лет назад +2

    But what sounds do ferrets make in different languages? I only know "dook" in English and "mok" in Dutch. And what sounds do otters make in different languages?

  • @GobsAlmightyVlogs
    @GobsAlmightyVlogs 9 лет назад

    I love your videos. Amazing drawings aswell!

  • @TheMaru666
    @TheMaru666 7 лет назад +2

    In spanish :
    Cat: ¡ miau!
    Dog : ¡ guau!
    Duck : ¡ cua , cua !
    Hen : ¡ co, co , co !
    Rooster : ¡ kikirikiiii!
    Cow : ¡muuuuuu!
    Chicken : ¡ pío, pío !
    Pig : usually use the english ¡ oink ¡ when it is writen .
    Horse : ¡ Hiiiiiii!

    • @emiliamunoz6782
      @emiliamunoz6782 4 года назад

      You mean "quiquiriquí" for the rooster ;)

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Italian
      Cat: Miao
      Dog: Bau, Wof, Grrr
      Duck: Quack, Quack
      Hen: coccodè, coco co co coco
      Cow: Muuu
      Little chicken: pio pio
      Rooster: Chicchirichì
      Pig: Oink
      Horse: hihihihi
      Snake: Sssssss
      Mouse: Squit, squit
      So pretty similar

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Coccodè is when the hen poops put an egg, co coco co co, is just the hen normally

  • @AmosPressley
    @AmosPressley 6 лет назад

    I am glad the horse finally made it in. That and the rooster would be two challenging sounds.

  • @BetsyArcherella
    @BetsyArcherella 5 лет назад +3

    But, in American English, many animals make a variety of sounds. For example, the dog might say, “Bark! Bark!” or “Woof! Woof!” or “Ruff! Ruff!” or “Yap! Yap!” for a small happy dog, or “Grrrr! Grrr!” or “Howl”, etc. Is this true in other languages?

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад +2

      Yes, in Italian "Bau" is generally applied to all dogs, but many use it for small dogs, wof, grrr and similar sounds can be used aswell

    • @BetsyArcherella
      @BetsyArcherella 3 года назад +2

      @@lucabralia5125 Good to know. Thanks!

  • @carmenbarragan6908
    @carmenbarragan6908 2 года назад

    I belived that my cat understood spanish and english and I do notice back in Colombia that they do make diferents sounds .Sad to thing that some people think that animals are nothing, they are very smart and deserved love just liked us humans.

  • @arctic_corner
    @arctic_corner 8 лет назад +7

    just noticed oink is groin in french Lol

    • @g.m.9180
      @g.m.9180 8 лет назад +2

      "groin" also means an animal's snout in French. We don't pronounce it like in English though, sorry!

  • @Sibeckham
    @Sibeckham 9 лет назад +45

    Where's the spanish!!!... cries In spanish... :'(

  • @bloomcipher888
    @bloomcipher888 2 года назад

    The first time I heard someone who speaks other languag using a word "imitating" an animal sounds I just got so confuse 'cause I didn't understand why it's different 'cause animals make the same sounds everywhere, and actually i just realized I've had never see or hear the sounds of the animals even in English, only in spanish 'cause it's my native language

  • @jacobyorton
    @jacobyorton 3 года назад

    2:15 - I'm pretty sure Ylvis summed up pretty well what the fox says. ruclips.net/video/jofNR_WkoCE/видео.html

  • @Matticitt
    @Matticitt 8 лет назад +1

    Word for a sound Rooster makes in Polish is kukuryku

  • @trevorjames7490
    @trevorjames7490 4 года назад +1

    In Indonesian :
    Cat : meong
    Dog : guk-guk
    Pig : grong-grong
    Cow : muuu
    Duck : kwek-kwek
    Goat : Mbbee
    Frog : kwebek-kwebek
    Rooster : Kukuruyu
    Hen : Kotek-kotek

    • @wanderlust16
      @wanderlust16 2 года назад

      Hehehe, your frog sounds like it's saying Quebec Quebec with a bad English accent!

  • @nari6134
    @nari6134 8 лет назад +7

    Good video! But in french, the dog noise is "ouaf ouaf" and not "ouah ouah"! :)

    • @quietcorner293
      @quietcorner293 4 года назад

      I remember a joke where a French cow says le Moo.

  • @Tidegast
    @Tidegast 4 года назад +2

    Some of them in Hindi:
    म्याऊं-म्याऊं /mjɑːũː mjɑːũː/ cat
    भौं-भौं /bʱɔ̃ː bʱɔ̃ː/ dog
    में-में /mẽː mẽː/ goat
    कुकड़ू कूँ /kʊk.ɽuː ͜ kũː/ rooster

  • @hellohi7270
    @hellohi7270 9 лет назад +6

    Interesting. Italian was very similar to german.

    • @quietcorner293
      @quietcorner293 4 года назад

      It's funny that Italians call Germans Tedesca which is closer to Deutsch than their Latin cousins who say Allemande.

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Quiet Corner tedeschi, not tedesca, tedesca is the female noun

  • @aelvin12
    @aelvin12 7 лет назад +2

    Russians don't say "kyaf kyaf" when they imitate a small dog's bark. They do seldom say "tyaf tyaf" - but I would say that is relatively uncommon and "gav gav" is used a lot more often. Also the "nyam nyam" that Italians say for good food is applicable to Russians as well.
    P.S. I'm not Russian, but Russian is my native tongue as I was born in a post-Soviet country and my family speaks Russian. And no, we don't speak a local dialect of Russian (like German Swiss etc.), it's the same exact Russian that Russians speak

    • @BaunKot
      @BaunKot 5 лет назад

      В видео все верно. Когда имитируют звонкий лай щенков или маленьких собак, то говорят обычно тяф-тяф. От этого даже слово произошло - тявкать

  • @lerapol
    @lerapol 6 лет назад

    3:00 XD, kikiriki means peanuts in my language, Serbo-Croatian. And when the rooster said "chicchirichi" it sounded very different to a sound an animal should have made.

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад +1

      Hmmm, to me, an Italian it sounds exactly like what a rooster would say, I guess our languages just make us think differently

  • @L8rCloud
    @L8rCloud 7 лет назад +2

    Do Spanish or Italian cats roll their Rs when they purr?

    • @TheMaru666
      @TheMaru666 7 лет назад +3

      Nicolas Cacace yes they do in Spanish , it is a continuous trilled rrrrrrrr sound . Pur in spanish is " ronroneo " ( noun ) ronronear ( verb)

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Yes, although I have a language defect so I can't roll, my R
      As you can imagine, in Italy, where almost every R is rolled, I sound a bit strange lol

  • @quietcorner293
    @quietcorner293 4 года назад

    When my daughters were toddlers, they said vau vau for a dog or in German spelled wau wau. This is not an animal but water was blop blop.

  • @thecuriousengineer
    @thecuriousengineer 9 лет назад +3

    few Russian sounds were closest to Indian :)
    like Kukareku, myau, mu..

    • @aimee9478
      @aimee9478 8 лет назад +2

      Yeah, except that Russian Kukareku has its stress placed on the last syllable actually.

  • @Furienna
    @Furienna 4 года назад

    In Swedish:
    Rooster: Kuckeliku!
    Duck: Kvack!
    Cow: Mu!
    Pig: Nöff!
    Dog: Voff!
    Cat: Mjau!

  • @jsheav
    @jsheav 4 года назад

    I remember loosing my shit when I found out that Spaniards say dogs go "guo guo"

  • @jordanletoto1474
    @jordanletoto1474 4 года назад

    This reminds me of the song in the movie Road Trip that Barry sings 😂

  • @AmosPressley
    @AmosPressley 6 лет назад

    Ooooh!! They became Shriners at 2:10 ! Hide the liquor!

  • @teawmarina7722
    @teawmarina7722 7 лет назад

    i live in croatia and on croatian cat goes mijau dog goes vau vau or vof vof pig goes oink oink cow goes muuu duck goes kvak kvak and rooster goes kukuriku

  • @soldofpol7026
    @soldofpol7026 5 лет назад +2

    Pigs say groin in french

  • @WhiteTeeSpoons
    @WhiteTeeSpoons 7 лет назад

    Who else still blasting this in March 2017?? like if you agree

  • @Optimalillusion
    @Optimalillusion 9 лет назад +10

    Sha-zooooooo!

  • @mz_emmet
    @mz_emmet 8 лет назад +2

    in arabic there are names and verbs for all animal sounds like the english *barking, to bark* instead of *wuf wuf* but for all animals even some insects

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Similar for Italian.
      Cat: Miao (Miagolare)
      Dog: Bau (Abbaiare)

  • @jasonhatt4295
    @jasonhatt4295 5 лет назад

    I don't understand how these foreign languages come up with such strange names for the sounds animals make... they don't sound like that, it sure would be cool if they did but they don't, it's very odd, language is weird

    • @lucabralia5125
      @lucabralia5125 4 года назад

      Well, as an Italian the english sounds are weird to me, languages do be really odd

  • @Elmeromerosaborranchero-q8x
    @Elmeromerosaborranchero-q8x 8 месяцев назад

    Vas a querer o se los aviento a los inu?

  • @ThatGuy-ot9uv
    @ThatGuy-ot9uv 4 года назад

    In Korean, a dog says Mong Mong!

    • @PeterPaul175
      @PeterPaul175 4 года назад +2

      In Korean, a dog says “Please don’t eat me!”

  • @amac140
    @amac140 4 года назад

    Polish is how how...for the dog

  • @Saturns_Starzz
    @Saturns_Starzz 5 лет назад

    In Iceland the animals sound not so very difrent
    Like a meow from a cat:mjá
    You sey it like in english all the other animals some dont sound difrent
    Woof:voof
    Il be going goodbye or bless like we sey it

  • @gizmogwai81
    @gizmogwai81 9 лет назад +3

    And the Spanish does not matter?

    • @ihanba
      @ihanba 8 лет назад +5

      As if Spanish was the only language in the world that was left out of this video.

    • @victoriaherrera7724
      @victoriaherrera7724 7 лет назад +2

      Ya, but spoken by a few million, in the world. Review your geography....

  • @warspork5928
    @warspork5928 7 лет назад

    KUKKOKIEKUU!

  • @antdude
    @antdude 9 лет назад

    o/~ ... What does the ant say? ... o/~ :P

  • @ladydiana5177
    @ladydiana5177 5 лет назад

    Where is de Greek?

  • @bkvlogs5649
    @bkvlogs5649 3 года назад

    I am from kashmir I am also a teacher

  • @bones1026
    @bones1026 4 года назад +2

    g r o i n

  • @ponoc6811
    @ponoc6811 4 года назад

    🐔🦆🐄🐖🐕 🐈

  • @BhupinderSinghSaini1
    @BhupinderSinghSaini1 9 лет назад +3

    Yeah, but how can laughter be "jajaja" ?!

    • @feldspar1000
      @feldspar1000 9 лет назад +6

      The Spanish J makes an "H" sound.

    • @Yumass
      @Yumass 9 лет назад +1

      +Bhupinder Saini for spanish, hahahaha is the same as they say: a a a a a a because they don't pronounce the h

    • @BhupinderSinghSaini1
      @BhupinderSinghSaini1 9 лет назад +2

      Ohh...or, maybe rather, O
      :p

    • @antdude
      @antdude 9 лет назад +2

      +Bhupinder Saini O(h).

    • @BhupinderSinghSaini1
      @BhupinderSinghSaini1 9 лет назад

      ***** O(h/j/)

  • @mitsowashere
    @mitsowashere 8 лет назад

    Hello

  • @strawberrykun6136
    @strawberrykun6136 6 лет назад

    In my country dog say bhau bhau

  • @FrameGame1
    @FrameGame1 4 года назад

    What did I just watch

  • @rasheedqe
    @rasheedqe 6 лет назад

    humans are so weird

  • @blakethelegend2319
    @blakethelegend2319 8 лет назад

    Who cares