Comment by pbh101
3 hours ago
Interestingly, in practice different languages tend to have markedly different common representations of animal sounds.
3 hours ago
Interestingly, in practice different languages tend to have markedly different common representations of animal sounds.
Sure, and not every single person agrees with the proposed phonetic shape-matching either, but the broad trend does hold and there is similarly in animal vocalizations even across unrelated languages.
In Korean, dogs say meong (멍), sounds like mung) rather than woof.
In Spanish, they say "guau" (pronounced like "wow")
in English i say UAUH? (pronounced like Tim from Home Improvement)
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