How do you say ‘meow’ in Chinese
Another host mum and I and our spouses were playing a game with several international students a few weeks back - some of them were from China and some were from Korea.
The game consisted of making sounds like different animals - goats, cats, dogs, pigs, etc.
What was so surprising to me is that the animal sounds were different in different languages. Not oink, oink, meow, bow wow, moo, etc., but wah, wha! for a dog - eyoo! for a cat, and so forth.
I guess I always thought animal sounds were universal onomatopoeia - the word is the sound, like bang and slap.
