How does onomatopoeia differ in the different languages?
For example is there a language where pigs don't say "oink"? :D
I know for laughing it's really different..some say "hahah" some say "jajaja" some say "huehuehue" some say "yayayaya"
So surely there's difference in onomatopoeia between languages :D
I'm looking to some interesting examples in this thread :D
Hi Dragonsky! Yeah, it sounds funny, lol . In Tagalog, we have the words siya-siya or sige-sige which means Yes.
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Yeah animals has been discussed but what about other onomatopoeiac words I would be curious to know .... Do doors creak open ? What are your native equivalents for crash thump whoosh, how do you sneeze achoo !
Ari wrote:Spanish is jajaja, my husband makes fun of me about this all the time. There was a post where they shared some different animals sounds around the countries.
That's what inspired me for this thread :D
I know that there are some differences in other sounds, and idk, I find that interesting :D
meifeng wrote:This is a tough one. The only thing that comes to mind immediately is, dog's bark in Mandarin. Apparently, dogs go "wang" in Mandarin.
Ha, that's interesting ! Had no idea about it :D
we have "mingming" for cats, "tuko" which is gecko and 'hatching" for sneeze 
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I'm going to use hatching
meifeng wrote:This is a tough one. The only thing that comes to mind immediately is, dog's bark in Mandarin. Apparently, dogs go "wang" in Mandarin.
Wang wang, that sounds different lol.
We us Achoo for sneeze in Spanish.
Meow for cats.
-Ari-
meifeng wrote:Michelle.Batan wrote:we have "mingming" for cats, "tuko" which is gecko and 'hatching" for sneeze
"mingming" - that's so cute!
yeah. thats for kittens :)
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Jade.Xuereb wrote:I'm going to use hatching
LOL
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