How to write the sounds made by dogs in different languages.
Language | Sounds |
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Afrikaans | woef |
Albanian | ham ham, hum-hum, gam-gam, uof-uof |
Arabic | haw haw, hab hab, (nibaah) نباح |
Armenian | հաւ հաւ (hav hav) |
Basque | au-au, txau-txau (small dogs) zaunk-zaunk (big dogs) |
Batak | kung-kung |
Bengali | ঘেউ ঘেউ (gheu gheu), ভেউ ভেউ (bheu bheu), ভউ ভউ (bhou bhou) |
Bulgarian | бау бау (bau bau), джаф джаф (djaff djaff) |
Catalan | bup-bup, bub-bub |
Chinese (Cantonese) | 㕵㕵 (wōu-wōu) |
Chinese (Mandarin) | 汪汪 (wāng wāng) |
Croatian | vau vau |
Czech | haf haf |
Danish | vuf vuf, vov vov, bjæf bjæf |
Dutch | waf waf, woef woef |
English | woof, arf, bow wow, ruff |
Estonian | auh auh |
Finnish | hau hau, vuh vuh |
French | ouah ouah, ouaf ouaf, wouf wouf |
Galician | jau jau |
German | wau wau, waff waff, wuff wuff |
Greek (Modern) |
γαβ γαβ (ghav ghav) |
Hebrew | (hav hav) הַב־הַב (haw haw) הַאוּ־הַאוּ |
Hindi | भो भो (bho bho) |
Hungarian | vau vau |
Icelandic | voff voff |
Indonesian | guk guk |
Irish (Gaelic) | bhuf bhuf |
Italian | bau bau |
Japanese | ワンワン (wan wan) |
Kannada | bow bow |
Kazakh | арп-арп (arp-arp), шәу-шәу (shau-shau) |
Korean | 멍멍 (meong meong) |
Latgalian | vau vau |
Latvian | vau |
Lithuanian | au au |
Macedonian | ав ав (av av), џав џав (dzhav dzhav) |
Malayalam | bau bau |
Marathi | भो-भो (bho bho) |
Norweigan | voff voff, vov vov |
Persian (Farsi) |
(vāq vāq) واق واق (hāf-hāf) هاف هاف |
Polish | hau hau |
Portuguese | au au, ão ão, béu béu |
Romanian | ham ham |
Russian | гав-гав (gav gav) - big dogs тяф-тяф (tyaf tyaf) - small dogs |
Scottish Gaelic | af af, uf uf |
Serbian | ав ав (av av) |
Sinhalese | බුඃ බුඃ (buh buh) |
Slovenian | hov hov |
Spanish | guau guau |
Swedish | vov vov, voff voff |
Tagalog | aw aw |
Tamil | லொள் லொள் (loll-loll), vovw-vovw, vazh vazh |
Telugu | bau bau |
Thai | โฮ่ง ๆ (hong hong), บ๊อก ๆ (bok bok) |
Turkish | hav hav |
Ukrainian | гав (gav) |
Vietnamese | gâu gâu, sủa sủa |
Welsh | bow-wow |
How to pronounce some of these words
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias#Animal_sounds
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