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• Thread starter Thread starter gorbatzjov
• Start date Start date Feb 16, 2006

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gorbatzjov

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Brussels Belgium, Dutch/French/English Hello everyone, The most different sound in animal language (as to onomatopaes) is the rooster. - In English it does: cock-a-doodle-doo - In French it goes: cocorico - In Dutch it's: kukeleku - In German it's: kikeriki Do you know any more translations?

Monnik

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Yo, en México; mi corazón, en Madrid Mexico - Spanish/English Español - Quiquiriquíííííííí J

Josh_

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the phrontistery U.S., English Egyptian Arabic dialect: كوكوكوكو kukukuuku

badgrammar

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American English In Turkish: kukuriku, I think...

elroy

Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)

Chicago, IL US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual

Josh Adkins said: Egyptian Arabic dialect: كوكوكوكو kukukuuku Click to expand...

It's the same in Palestinian Arabic, except that the first vowel is long: kuukukuuku

Jana337

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čeština Czech: two common spelling versions - kikirikí and kykyryký. The last vowel is long in both of them. Jana P.S. Arabic roosters are deviant. S

SpiceMan

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Osaka 大阪 Castellano, Argentina Japanese: コケコッコー (Kokekokkoo)

gorbatzjov said: Hello everyone, The most different sound in animal language (as to onomatopaes) is the rooster. Click to expand...

Really? I don't really know many of them, but for instance a barking dog: English: woof! woof! Spanish: ¡Guau! ¡Guau! (goo-ah-oo) Japanese: ワン！ワン！wan! wan! While rooster looks more similar to me.

Ilmo

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Uusikaupunki, Southwestern Finland Finland, Finnish The Finnish rooster says: Kuk-ko-kie-kuu The accent is excepcionally on the last syllable (while in all the other Finnish words the accent is on the first syllable). Besides rooster is in Finnish "kukko" and the last part of the expression, "kie-kuu", comes from the verb "kiekua" that means just "cock-a-doodle-doo". Thus the Finnish roosters do it quite the same way as the British ones. O

Outsider

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Portuguese (Portugal) In Portuguese, "cocorocó" or "cocoricó". A

Alberto77

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Italian - Italy in italiano: chicchirichì ciao alb

amikama

a mi modo

ישראל 🇮🇱 עברית Hebrew: kukuriku (קוקוריקו)

Roi Marphille

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Moronland Catalonia, Catalan. In Catalan: quiquiriquic

Whodunit

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กรุงเทพมหานคร Deutschland ~ Deutsch/Sächsisch Here you go. O

Outsider

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Portuguese (Portugal)

Portuguese (Portugual): cocorococó Click to expand...

Yes, a variant of the one I wrote above. The things you can find on the Internet! A

alwayslearning

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English Usa What an interesting topic! As I always sing along with my daughter to one of her Spanish/English children's songs, I've thought about this too. Here is a really interesting site I found on this subject. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/rooster.html

Lancel0t

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Philippines Philippines - Filipino In Filipino - tiktilaok.. J

Juri

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Koper, near Trieste italian/Slovenia Verifying this onomatopoeia is similar in all languages, i can add that in Slovenian there is about also a verb : kikirìkati In Spanish isn't the same : cucurucucuuu palomaaaa...?

Roi Marphille

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Moronland Catalonia, Catalan.

Juri said: In Spanish isn't the same : cucurucucuuu palomaaaa...? Click to expand...

nope, this a pigeon... ...also a beautiful song. As you know H

hagamenon

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Spanish Spain Spanish dogs: "guau guau" spanish cats: "miauuu" spanish parrots: "hooola", and they sometimes swear S

Sina

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Turco, Turquia In turkishg it is not kuk kuri kuu or something. its just "ü ürü üüüüüüüüü"

ukuca

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Istanbul - Turkey Turkish - Turkey Aha It's very funny actually; In Turkish we use "ü ürü üüüüüü"

panjabigator

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San Francisco Am. English I have no clue for Indian languages....some one please tell me!

Maja

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Binghamton, NY Serbian, Serbia In Serbian: ku-ku-ri-ku

robbie_SWE

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Sweden Trilingual: Swedish, Romanian & English In Romanian: cucurigu

stargazer

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Slovenia, Slovenian Juri had already mentioned the verb, while the actual sound is: KIKIRIKI. Similar as in Czech and some other languages, the accent is on the last syllable. A

Arabelle

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Arabic In Moroccan Arabic: kukuu3uu! -- 3 stand for the letter ع that has no equivalent in Latin alphabet. M

misdirection

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Filipino/Philippines

Lancel0t said: In Filipino - tiktilaok.. Click to expand...

True. Incidentally, we (Filipinos) refer to the sound as "tilaok" (pronounced as tee-la-ock) C

Confused Linguist

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Bengali Bengali konkkor-kaw-kaw A

Aleco

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Råde, Norway Norwegian Norwegian: Ky-keli-ky

sound shift

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Derby (central England) English - England "Cock" seems to be a risqué word in AE, so perhaps US birds go rooster-a-doodle-do G

gao_yixing

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Shanghai Chinese Nice thread. I think it varies in different dialects in China. In Shanghai, it sounds like gogo-daa. My roommate from Beijing says that it sounds like goo-goo.

Abbassupreme

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California, U.S. United States, English, Persian Persian: Qu-qu-li-qu-qu (with qaaf: the hard k) D

daoxunchang

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China Chinese China Hehe, I took a look at the page provided by Whodunit, and I have to say that the sound sequence in it which is placed after "Chinese"---Chinese (Mandarin): gou gou --- is not really correct. It actually should be wowowowo喔喔喔喔

zúzmara

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Hungary, Hungarian In Hungarian: kukorikú

suslik

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USA, Atlanta Estonia, estonian In Estonia cock does kikerikii M

mcibor

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Szczecin, Poland Polish Polish: rooster - kogut doing this sound - piać sound - kukuryku other animals: dogs - hau hau (szczekać - to bark) cats - miau (miauczeć - to meow) Interesting, that most Indo-european language have such similarities.

Abbassupreme

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California, U.S. United States, English, Persian

sound shift said: "Cock" seems to be a risqué word in AE, so perhaps US birds go rooster-a-doodle-do Click to expand...

I'm not sure if that was a joke, or not (I'm really bad on the uptake), but that's wrong. Americans DO say "Cock-a-doodle-doo".

doman

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Vietnam Vietnam, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) hehe, it's intersting topic. Vietnamese: Ò ó ooo... M

mylasalle

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English - Philippines

Lancel0t said: In Filipino - tiktilaok.. Click to expand...

Yes, I agree. And in addition, for the reading benefit of foreigners, I think it would help to hyphenate a part of the expression. Thus... TIKTILA-OK

swift

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Spanish – Costa Rica (Valle Central) Hello Gorbatzjov, In Spanish: "cocoricó" or "quiquiriquí". Greetings, swift S

Saluton

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Moscow, Russia Russian Russian: кукареку (kukareku) N

nort9111

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english Korean 꼬꼬댁 (kko kko dek) or 꼬끼오 (kko kki oh) I have no idea how to explain the 꼬(kko) sound. Some ppl romanize it as ggo. It's not 코(Ko) nor 고(go) V

Velikov

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Bulgarian

robbie_SWE said: In Romanian: cucurigu Click to expand...

Hi everyone, it's funny, but in Bulgarian this sounds the same way!!! O

origumi

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Hebrew

nort9111 said: Korean 꼬꼬댁 (kko kko dek) Click to expand...

This is funny: 꼬꼬 is the Hebrew word "kirker" in Hebrew letters = made a rooster sound.

Kaleronita

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Barcelona, Spain Argentina Spanish Hi all, If you´re interested in sounds and onomatopoeia, there´s an excellent book that has just appeared: "Diccionario de onomatopeyas del cómic" by Román Gubern and Luis Gasca. It translates some of the typical sounds of comic into different languages.

sokol

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Vienna, Austria; raised in Upper Austria Austrian (as opposed to Australian)

gorbatzjov said: - In German it's: Kikeriki Click to expand...

That's indeed the German translation; but when we were kids (that is, in Austria) we mimicked a rooster's cry with "ü" sounds only (here ' indicates a glottal stop; strangely Austrian dialects don't make use of the glottal stop except with a few onomatopoetic words like that one): 'ü'ü'ü'üüü A

aanin

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Bahasa Indonesia Rooster sounds Kukuruyuk (koo-koo-roo-youk) in Bahasa Indonesia Kong-ko-rongok (kong-ko-rongok) in Sundanese G

gerrit

New Member

dutch quite interesting conversation indeed... you might not believe me, but I was looking for this. seriously. thanx... I think I go with the Russian one. that looks cool. oh what the h*ll... I'll use them all! Great! Thanx! I love the internet! The should print it on a t-shirt!

ferleguidoor

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Lima, Perú Peruvian Spanish In spanish= "Kiki riki"

ferleguidoor

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Lima, Perú Peruvian Spanish Do roosters know they speak so many languages? ha ha. Just kidding.

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