Animal Noises In Other Languages

[@NameExplain]

Suggest an idea for next Monday's video down below!

[@billyr2904]

Can you do 5 animals named after the sound that they make e.g. gecko comes from the sound that the tokay gecko makes, with tokay also being a noise made by the tokay gecko. All geckos make vocal noise, however only the tokay gecko says gecko, with each gecko making their own unique sound.

[@doomi4055]

Hey Patrick, can you do 5 cartoons names explained for next Monday?

[@Illumisepoolist]

Disney Princess names or the names of shapes.

[@ajayramtohul]

Origin of some band names. There is for example at least 3 bands that hit their name from the film Paris, Texas

[@hokusei90]

Types of high heel styles. Don't know if you've covered that topic yet. Otherwise the genus Panthera would be great!

[@blauesserpiroyal2887]

The German word "quak" is actually not only used for frogs, but also ducks

[@HalfEye79]

For frog the "Quak" is pronounced more in the throat or so.

[@VintageTechFan]

Yes. But it is pronounced different. The duck one is short and hard, like the english one. The frog one is drawn out and deeper.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

In Germany the frogs say quak because the Duck of Taunton lives within them.

[@R3stor]

in Slovak (and many more slavic languages I believe) the word "kvak" is also used for frogs and ducks as well

[@Frogboyaidan]

😆

[@paulawashington3175]

On a train trip from Bologna to Salerno when my children were 12 and almost 15, my daughter noticed that the passengers in our car were from many countries. To lighten the mood, she asked what sounds various animals made in their native languages. The only agreements were the sounds the duck and the cat make. The French spell the sound as "couac," but the sound is the same; everyone else had some variant of "miao" or "mao." Italian cows say, "Bu." Spanish roosters say "quiquiriqui." French roosters say "ru eru eru." Everyone fell out laughing when they found out that English roosters say, "Cockle doodle doo."

[@baaaj3200]

haha, dobre

[@westzed23]

Shout out to your daughter for making a boring train trip into getting foreign relations improved. 😀🗣💜

[@Jan_Koopman]

"The German term for 'ribbit' sounds a lot more like the English word for the sound of a duck" Funnily enough, both 'ribbit' and a duck's sound are represented in Dutch by 'kwaak'

[@paulbennett7021]

Oddly enough, "ribbit" is the sound of only 1 type of frog found near Hollywood studios

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@paulbennett7021 a pacific tree frog.

[@stanislaww.piesio9879]

Polish 'kwik-kwik' is not exactly the sound a pig makes in normal situation and relaxed environment (that sound is 'chrum-chrum'), but rather when it is agitated and/or stressed.

[@ShadowSkryba]

And it's kvik-kvik, btw

[@kosmobold]

it's not kvik kvik we do not have the v letter in polish LOL

[@ShadowSkryba]

@@kosmobold yeah but to Anglos w=ł

[@kosmobold]

@@ShadowSkryba yeah but pretty sure name explain showed how they were written in the language and not the english letter pronunciation lol

[@ShadowSkryba]

@@kosmobold he pronounced it like ł, that's what I wanted to clear. Didn't feel like going to IPA

[@CochinKerala]

The sound of the Rooster in my language Malayalam is Kok-ka-ra-ko. The sound of the Crow is Ka-Ka which also happens to be the word for crow in Malayalam.

[@headstrikerop4093]

Same in Urdu except that the word for crow is "Kava"

[@reecedawson6113]

A bit like Pokémon then

[@atsukorichards1675]

In Japanese, a rooster says "kokekokko/コケコッコー", and a crow goes "kaa-kaa/カーカー."

[@Red_Skies]

In German the sound an owl makes is "Huuu Huuu" (which is pretty similar to English), but the name for an Eurasian Eagle Owl is "Uhu" (pronounced Oohoo). Just an onomatopoeia of the sound they make. I like that

[@headstrikerop4093]

In Urdu it's called "Ulu"

[@Bacopa68]

The most common owl where I live says "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you aaaaalll?"

[@andyjay729]

The reason "ribbit" is the default frog noise in English is likely due to Hollywood. The Pacific tree frog, which lives along North America's west coast, is one of the few frogs that actually makes that noise, but of course recordings of it were often used by the movie studios for background noise.

[@geofferychang8713]

I feel the french Groin-groin is pretty accurate if you don't pronounce it as if it's a English word... In Mandarin, the dog's barking sound is not "wow wow", it's "won won won 汪汪汪".

[@ferretyluv]

Same in Japanese. It’s wanwan.

[@andyjay729]

Yeah, in French it sounds like the English word "grunt" (which may have been derived from pig noises).

[@JiminyClarkson]

No, it's wang wang

[@sleepyburr]

Came here to say this. If pronounced accurately, it makes much more sense.

[@TeachMeBert]

*(**4:20**)* Slight correction: in Swedish, it's not _"Noff",_ but _"Nöff",_ pronounced similar to the French word for "nine", _"neuf"._

[@that_cat4576]

im from indonesia and I think the G from "Guk- Guk " will make sense when the word is repeated so it sound like "ukG - UkG - UkG" ". example from the song "Heli / Aku punya anjing kecil(i have a small dog). from my perspective i always think that dog barks always end with a G or K sound

[@depufull]

The French "Groin-Groin" actually sounds like "ggghwnoh-ggghwnoh" which actually sounds identical to a pig in my opinion since the "r" in French sounds like someone clearing throat and "oi" is uwa and the n makes the vowel naselised

[@axelprino]

That "cui-cui" in Spanish isn't pronounced as "queue-queue" but rather "kwee-kwee". Also, while in Spanish the most common sound for a rooster is "quiquiriquí" we also say "cocorocó" which isn't that far off from how they said it in Latin.

[@raakone]

Frogs also "croak" in English. Dogs, besides barking and woofing, also arf and ruff. Also, the "oin" in French is probounced "wan" (but with the n nasalised) The "Pika" in "Piakchu" is a Japanese sound of sparks or electricity. So Pikachu could be called a "sparksqueak." Also, if you'd like animal sounds in another language...check out Flander and Swann's cover of the Greek "Kokoraki." kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpfOg3-KdrCeg7M

[@PalkkiTT]

In finnish we say that roosters say "kukko kiekuu" which literary translates to "rooster screams" but still sounds similar to other languages.

[@dannil9878]

Crows, not screams 😂

[@yohannessulistyo4025]

"Guk" (sound like "goohk") sound is more like English vocalisation of "woof" but with harder consonant like "bark". The more proper term in Indonesian is "menggonggong" or producing that "gong gong" sound - closer to English vocalisation of "bark bark" "arf arf". Dogs in Indonesia by default are medium sized mutt, or Kintamani breed, which is kind of like medium sized shirt haired spitz.

[@anonymus2782]

Swedish pigs don't say "noff" but "nöff". Both spelling and pronunciation are different (a rounded front vowel instead of a rounded back vowel). The closest vowel in your English, I think, is the one that you use in "nerds" at 7:34 in the video, but in a shorter form. By the way, our mice use a long vowel [i:] in their "pip-pip". Now you know that. Thank you for a nice video.

[@ugglorimossen]

Nöff would sound identical to a french number 9 (neuf).

[@fotograftobias]

“Neuff” i believe for easier pronunciation

[@EnigmaticLucas]

The “nerds” approximation only works for non-rhotic dialects

[@anonymus2782]

@@EnigmaticLucas That is why I referred to the videomaker's English (and a special place in the video).

[@ChaoticRabbitOfCaerbannog]

Icelandic ducks say bra bra, the go around saying good good

[@TheInvisibleCanadia]

With Frogs, different species make different sounds actually. Only frogs in the Los Angeles area, where kids' shows teaching animal sounds are made, say ribbit.

[@Dan_-]

"The cow goes, 'Shazoo!'" "It most certainly does not!"

[@thetoycollectorofseville6428]

What do you call a pig with no legs? A groundhog!

[@PackerBacker23]

0:35 immediately thought of what does the fox say 😭😂

[@cldream]

🤐

[@HalfEye79]

The German word for the Dog - Wau Wau (like the Chinese) Rooster - Kickeriki Pig - Grunz Grunz

[@pedromenchik1961]

Portuguese: - dog: "au au" - rooster: "cocoricó" - pigs: "óinc" - frogs: "croac" - mice: "quii"

[@brianedwards7142]

Fun Fact: frogs make different noises in different countries. A biologist could tell which continent by the structure of the noises frogs make.

[@thetoycollectorofseville6428]

What do you get when you cross a pig and a centipede? Bacon and legs!

[@PaprikaX33]

The Indonesian Guk-Guk is written like that because of the Dutch. The G should be pronounced as the Dutch G which is basically an H with extra throat voice, as it was transcribed before any Indonesian or Malay writing system was invented. The English "Bark" is actually far weirder, as the B implies a labial plosive like sound, which is almost impossible to be created by dogs. Animals actually have different regional dialects even for the same species similar to how birds have different sounds in different location. Compounded by the local culture, and writing system, before finally being pronounced in English, explains why there are lots of different onomatopoeias for a single animal that seem to make no sense.

[@jobda1211]

in polish: dog - *hau* [ˈxäw] or *szczek* [ˈʂt͡ʂɛk] rooster - *kukuryku* [kukuˈrɨku] pig - *chrum* [ˈxrum] ( *kwik* [ˈkfʲik] is much rarer but can be used as noun) frog - *kum* [ˈkum] mouse doesn't realy have distinct sound ( *pi* [ˈpʲi] can be used)

[@stephenreardon2698]

Part of the reason animal noise names are different in different countries is that, like humans, they can have different accents in different places. A wild roaster in south east Asia sounds similar to a domesticated roaster in Scotland, but not the same. You say that in English we say frogs say ribbit. In Britain we say they croak. Different frogs, from different species make completely different noises. Most species are in fact silent. It is only one species that goes ribbit, but that happens to be native to southern California, so was used in a lot of Hollywood films to provide a swampy background noise. Ribbit is also the way New Zealanders pronounce rabbit. The Mandarin word for cat is Mao, which is literally the noise a (Chinese) cat makes. It is also the word for hat making Dr Seuss books somewhat challenging, as well as giving a whole new perspective on Chairman Mao

[@leszeksikora5923]

In polish we also have "hrum-hrum" as a pig noise.

[@pentalarclikesit822]

Pronounced in a French accent, "groin-groin" does sound like a pig snuffling. The "r" is guttural/swallowed, the n is silent and jsut nasalizes the "i". So it sounds a bit like "grohn-grohn" but nasal. My favorite of all time, though is, I think in Dutch the sound of a horse is "vrank". Or something like it. I've never understood where any of the stopped vowels come through in a rooster crowing. I conlang, and I think in my conlang, I'll make it something like what it sound to me, "Ah-hurah-hurah."

[@ranimcalister5026]

As someone who finds languages fascinating, this was an interesting topic, as it is one that is usually overlooked. True, these are words for sounds, so the etymology isn't as complex, but, looking at the way different peoples interpret animal sounds is still interesting.

[@Releasethezazen]

French "groin goin" doesn't sound like English "groin". It sounds more like the pig snorting, pretty accurate. Remember the French "R" sound is at the back of the throat with the back of the tongue, between the hard and soft palate and the air flow vibrates or stops, nothing like the English "R" in the front of the mouth with the lips pursed and the tongue raise but not touching the roof of the mouth and air flow continues.

[@lakrids-pibe]

A frog in Denmark says *kvæk kvæk* (very similar to quack quack), but a duck says *rap rap* Yes, we made a lot of jokes about ducks and hip hop.

[@southvillechris]

Some I came across in French holidays: dogs go "craque craque" and there was a brand of dog food with the amusing name "craque Monsieur ". Ducks go "coin coin" which sounds odd until you realise "coin" is pronounced something like "kwang" in French. And a brand of cat food was Ron Ron, which again sounds odd until you pronounce it in French: the r is a rrrr pronounced at the back of the throat, as is the final n, so ronron actually sounds like a cat's purr.

[@lama-chan]

Excuse me? The polish sound for pig is "chrum chrum" and for frog it's "rech rech". But "kwi kwi" and "kum kum" is acceptable as well.

[@ShadowSkryba]

And he bastardized kwi too

[@iris_drawssandwiches]

1:38 That is the best written form for the sound a dog makes that I've ever seen. Like when you said it, it sounded like a dog!

[@nikihollingsworth9791]

Casual Geographic, another KZbinr I follow religiously, says Pikachu is like us saying zap squeak in English. 😃

[@jarleikkeland]

Okay: - A pig's sound in Russian is "hryu hryu" (what's your opinion on this?) - In Spanish, "cua cua" is a word for duck's sound. In Russian, however, a similar word is used for frogs - "Meow" in Korean is... "yaong". Without any initial "m" or "n". There are, however, other variants for "meow" ("nyaong" and "nyang nyang"), but "yaong" is considered the "official" word.

[@darreljones8645]

The Japanese version of "meow" is "nya", which explains why the Japanese name of Pokémon's Meowth is Nyase. BTW, is anyone else disappointed Patrick left out cats? :(

[@alekseyprokopev7409]

Russian: dogs - гав-гав (gav-gav), rooster - ку-ка-ре-ку (coo-ca-reh-coo), pigs - хрю-хрю (khru-khru), frogs - ква-ква (qua-qua), mice - ???.

[@EladLerner]

In Hebrew the animals say: Dog - hav-hav Cat - myaw Rooster - kookoorikoo Sheep - meh meh Frog - kwa kwa Pig - *snoring noise*

[@o_s-24]

Your sheep are kinda...meh Sorry.

[@EladLerner]

@@o_s-24 it's OK. Our ducks are kinda... Gaga 😉

[@lividlarry1026]

5:09 that’s a funny looking Hungarian flag

[@malkorassorek1876]

Yeah, well, German frogs not only sound like english ducks... But almost like german ducks, too.

[@sabiancoomber-nickerson5830]

With Japan having chu chu. It has me wondering what other languages use for the sound a train makes.

[@MuriKakari]

Not Indonesian, but I can hear it really easy for a dog to sound like gukguk, though it will be a deep voiced dog. Indonesian k is unaspirated, which means that to your ears as a British English speaker, it probably sounds more like guʔguʔ try saying guʔ as deep and resonant as you can but cut off the sound rather than holding the u or even xuʔ where the x is like scottish loch or a scouse k EDIT: read some comments by actual Indonesian speakers- everything I said is still technically valid, but it seems not to be the reason. English speakers nearly always misinterpret unaspirated consonants because we mostly only have them in consonant clusters.

[@lancehowelllagunay1943]

In the Philippines, roosters say "tuk-tu-ga-ook".

[@lunarsoul1737]

The English word for cow is thought to actually come from onomatopoeia for the sound that the Proto-Indo-Europeans spelled out, which was believed to be Gwooh.

[@furuisamumoto]

In Indonesian, roosters sound is kukuruyuk, frogs is usually krokok, and mice is cicit.

[@brisamargutierrezparra2517]

I believe in Spanish for dove sound is cucurru and plus there is a song about doves called Cucurrucucú Paloma 🕊️

[@thetoycollectorofseville6428]

What do you call a pig that does karate? Pork chop!

[@monochromeboy]

This is the sort of video I didn't know I wanted until it showed up in my recommended

[@kookaman6095]

No one: Japanese mice: 🚂

[@TopherTino]

As he’s saying “Groin is more like…” the video cuts to a Ferrero Rocher commercial. 😂

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Nice video! I love the different interpretations of animal sounds around the world. I live in Japan so wanted to just give the pronunciation for frog sounds - it's KEH-RO, KEH-RO (both syllables stressed) not KEE-RO. Cheers, and keep up the good work sir!

[@pawerysiejko2058]

Pigs in Polish rather use "hrum hrum". "Kvik" is made by a scared pig

[@Minardimaniac]

as you might already guessed it's the same with Pikachus evolution stages: it evolves from Pi-Chu and than becomes Rai-chu.

[@penriplays]

In Welsh, pig is "soch" rhymes with loch. Soch soch. Dog is "bow-wow" bow as in bow and arrow, and the wow rhymes with bow. Sheep is "mê" like the me in merry. A chicken is "cluc cluc" A horse is "gyhyrru" like gu in gun then hyrru like Hurry.

[@raymondleonardsetiabudhi2285]

indonesian here, yes it's correct in indonesian the sound of dog is gukguk, even know it's become similar with the name of the dog itself, since the origin indonesian for dog, "anjing" it's becoming a rude word, so now some people called the dog as gukguk, not anjing anymore

[@tr0liman]

That Hungarian flag killed me at 5:09 😂 (great video btw)

[@amberrosemorgan]

editor's mistake, apologies! In my quest to find a high quality flag image, Wikipedia seemed to have tricked me here - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Hungary_%281794_proposal%29.svg

[@tr0liman]

@@amberrosemorgan Well, the colors are the same 😊

[@pjschmid2251]

I would argue that in English the word bark is a name for the sound made by a dog but not an onomatopoeic imitation of the sound. That would be further supported by the fact that you can use the word bark and other contexts like barking out orders. The onomatopoeic words would be would be woof/roof for large dogs or arff for small dogs. If you were asked to imitate a dog you would never say bark bark you would say woof woof or arff arff.

[@agme8045]

In Spanish the sounds are “guau-guau” for dog, “cocoroco” for the rooster (it’s pronounced co-corocó), oink for pig, “croac-croac” for the frog.

[@headstrikerop4093]

The sound of mice in Urdu is also "Chu Chu"

[@enzo2.2]

🐀🚂

[@kathrynjones1367]

You forgot the other two dog sounds in English- "ruff" and "bow wow", the latter being a bit old fashioned admittedly.

[@UfoLBeerSeeker]

About polish pig sounds: Kwik. Thats name for the sound. Actual sound we say is Kwi. For english speaker you'd probably write that as Kveee or Queee (yes, long eee). Which is working for pigs squeeling in distress, but not really their calm grunts, which we call: Hrum Hrum in polish.

[@dnirikirinb]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Deutsche sound for the cockerel which is *_"Kikiri-ki!"_*

[@azebo25]

In hindi Dog go Bhau Bhau Rooster is as you said but d sound is very different ( I don't know how to explain that so put this कुकूड़ू कु one google translate and you will get a close enough version) Pig go Ghur Ghur Frog go Tur Tur Mouse go chu chu ( like Japanese ) Some other I wana tell are Donkey- Dhainchu Dhainchu Goat- Main main Pigeon- Gutar- goo

[@pierreabbat6157]

French "groin" doesn't sound anything like English "groin". There are many species of frogs, which sound different. I've been in Puerto Rico, where tree frogs say "coquí" ("qui" is about twice the frequency of "co" and lasts longer), and that's what that species of frog is called. An Australian frog is called "pobblebonk", again for its sound.

[@est95ny]

Reading the thumbnail outloud and pigs definitely say “NOFF”….like wtf is an oink? 1:38 wait…that makes more sense than wof too 😂 I feel like my whole American-English childhood learning animal sounds was a LIE

[@headstrikerop4093]

In Urdu and Hindi it is "Bhau Bhau' for dogs

[@taitano12]

The funny thing about this is the variation in the sounds those animals actually make renders all of these equally accurate and inaccurate. It comes from differences in species and breeds, what they're trying to communicate, and how the speaker pronounces the word.

[@electroninja8768]

In English I have heard dog noise as "Arf" before.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

You're supposed to say "ribbit" while breathing in (it is possible!) and you should sound more like some frogs. It's been discovered that cows in Britain (and, I assume elsewhere that cows are common) have local accents. The same breeds have slightly different sounds as you move from one place to another! It's quite possible that other farm animals do the same.

[@that_cat4576]

Funny frog noise from indonesia is "Kwebek- Kwebek" that exactly prnounced like "Quebec"

[@allanrichardson1468]

And a slang term (derogatory?) in English for a French person is “Frog.”

[@andyjay729]

In French, the "qu" is pronounced "k".

[@madnessarcade7447]

1:14 actually there’s 4 Woof Bark And Ruff And also Arf

[@stephanberger3476]

You can't lump all frogs in as one, though.. the Ribbit is from the kind that lives in California, and is known through Hollywood. They can sound very different all around.

[@ferretyluv]

Latin has the best sound for a dog barking: lat rat. If you pronounce groin groin in French, it sounds kinda like “grhwan grhwan,” which really does sound like a pig. It makes perfect sense.

[@HellDogas]

Ygaga - Lithuanian for horse :) šuldu buldu (shooldoo booldoo) for turkey

[@RoseNZieg]

the funniest things about animal sounds is that in some languages the animal sound and the animal names are the same.

[@sgrant9814]

In english mice go: eek, eek

[@ananas_anna]

Chuu is also the onomatopoeia for kissing. Similarity, “paku paku” is both the sound for fish and for opening and closing your mouth (like pac-man).

[@HeyLetsTalkAboutIt]

Love your beard Patrick!

[@farhanputrariantono930]

Animal sounds in Indonesian Dog : Guk Guk, Gong Gong Cat : Meoong Rooster : Kukuruyuuk Pig : Ngok Ngok Frog : Krok Krok Mice : Chiichiit Cow : Mooooo Goat : Mbeeeeee

[@agme8045]

“Cui-cui” in Spanish is not pronounced like a ‘q’, it’s more like the “qui” part of “quick’

[@westzed23]

Another interpretive sounds in foreign languages you could do is for mechanical sounds like choo choo for train in English and tuf tuf in French. 😀🚂❤

[@brianedwards7142]

Maybe you made this before the fact so I'll let you off this time but we demand to see the puppy!

[@XVYQ_EY]

Best barking: hev-hev (woof-woof and similar are also good but for big dogs). But actually hungarian vau-vau is the best phonetic transcription of barking. You didn't make enough examples. Also my mom's dog goes like ep-ep-ep Best oinking: In polish it is kwik-kwik ("kveeck-kveeck"), not kłik-kłik. Can't you read? Also this is the best squeeking sound. Polish has also have the best grunting sound with chrum-chrum Best ribbiting: kero-kero or ribbit Best mouse squeeking: cui-cui

[@4rumani]

Spanish has guau-guau which is almost the same

[@mfinchina__117]

In which Chinese dialect does a dog go "Wow wow"? In Mandarin it's "Wang wang."

[@brianedwards7142]

Check out Quaqquao by Misseri Animations. A papercraft duck meets other paper animals with Italianate onomatopoeia.

[@elinakangas571]

We need a part 2 there are still many animals left! :)

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

1:45 because (guk guk) is similar to the sound of a barking dog. For Indonesian

[@מוחמדראשידרדה]

Its because vowel,in indonesian hear dog bark was like guk guk,even if in my opinion dog bark was more closed enough to woof/wuk where to be misheard that they become guk-guk

[@netgnostic1627]

Hungarian pigs: "rüf rüf."

[@SamButler22]

Well, the PIKA part of Pikachu is a mouse looking creature, but actually more closely related to rabbits

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

I really don't get "oink" ... I can't even see it made much sense before the Great Vowel Shift either. The problem with comparing animal noise word for frog sounds is that different frog species makes very different sounds; I think the "ribbit" sound is very accurate for the kind of frogs that live near Hollywood but not much elsewhere; so I would assume English has lots of other words for frog sounds based off different kinds of frogs. The frogs I've heard in in Europe, usually goes something like "crooooaaaaa" or "kwaaa" etc. so it would surprise me if croak and quack aren't historical English words for European frog sounds.

[@samneis128]

@NameExplain pigs are your favorite animal? Do you know about the channel League of Pigs?

[@yaagodourado]

I think the dog sound in English is much more accurate than the one in my language (Portuguese) Au - Au (????)

[@ОльгаЛевченко-д1г]

Why did you ignore slavik languages, except of a bit of Polish?

[@modmaker7617]

And got Polish completely wrong

[@marna_li]

According to Swedes, pigs make the sound "nöff" - with the "ö" making is sound like French "neuf".

[@dinocat8]

Are you subscribed to LeagueofPigs? Glad to see a fellow pig lover

[@Crashlikag6]

Wth did you do to our flag 😭 5:08