Do dogs learn a new way of barking when they move abroad?

@Lucky09 (1763)
Philippines
November 29, 2009 7:53am CST
Hi fellas I just wonder if the way we interpret animal sounds differ from one country to another. Here are some differences I know..please correct me if I made some errors, and I only wrote here 3comparisons because they are the ones I heard from people of these countries I know. a dog’s bark would be: Philippines: Arrfff! Arrrff! Or bowwow! In Korea: Mung! Mung! In Japan: Wam! Wam! For pig sound: Philippines: Oink! Oink! Korea: kkool- kkool! kkool- kkool! Japan: buu-buu! For frogs: Philippine: kkookak-kkookak! Korean: gae-gool! gae-gool! (kkegul-kkegul!) Japan: kerro-kerro! So what are your country’s sound of these different animals? please share
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15 responses
• Malaysia
29 Nov 09
Hi, Lucky! Those are funny sounds and really help me to release my tension a bit he he he... I can't imagine those animal sounds like that in every three countries you stated above especially the frogs! Okay, let me try to imitate the sounds in my country:- Dogs: Woof! Woof! or Wow! Wow! *I think!* Pigs: Sounds like snorting, but I don't know how to put them in words, we usually write 'Oink! Oink!', too. Frogs: Kwong! Kwong! *I guess they sound like this when they are calling for the rain. Hahahaaa...*
• Malaysia
29 Nov 09
Lucky ~ I guess the frogs do sound like Wit's froggies... croak, croak, when they are just hanging around heeheee... Wit ~ 'Moooooo...' is definitely the language of cows! But that strange sound of donkeys. I thought they sound like this 'eho-eho-eho'... We don't have donkeys, though. That's what I have seen on TV.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hahaha, you too are amused i have several Korean and a few Japanese friends where i got these. i argue and laugh at those sounds too from them because i cannot understand why they interpret like that ok, we're almost the same, except those frogs' sound hahaha... do they say another when they want another thing except the rain?
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
ohh your cow is maybe angry misterwit, ours maybe "mwaaaaah, moaaaah"! (it's a combination of aaaa, and ooooo) for the donkey, i haven't met one yet so ok i'll accept that for now
@Baluyadav (3643)
• India
29 Nov 09
hi,very interesting discussion,but expression of response is little bit hard.. In our country,especially,in our region--[TELUGU.A REGIONAL LANGUAGE IN INDIA.. Frogs-Kreek..Kreek pigs-omkre..ookre Dogs-Bhow..Bhow.. Out of my 46 years age,first time,i came to know,animals also speak different languages as per their native country they born..ha..ha..ha.. ...human beings-????????? Have a nice time
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
waaahaha! yours also funny Balu because i cannot relate the pig sound omkre..ookre! it's funny isn't it...even animals have language differences oh and, that sound is only a dialect in India? does it mean there are more?
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
29 Nov 09
I have only JUST seen this - brilliant! Over here in Italy I have only heard the dogs and they go wroofffffff wroofffff if they are friendly and tend to accentate the rrrrrr part if they are cross. Not sure what the others say as I live in a town and the only pigs here are the ones that hoot the horn on their car when they want to get past you quick! But I have a question.... If a pig, for example, moves from your country to UK, would it learn the new way of talking?
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
29 Nov 09
I am so happy that you did make use of it Lucky! So yuo think they would still speal their own language?. So if I take an Italian cat to UK and he sees a female, you think she is going to understand if he meows in Italian to try and court her?
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hi mysD^^;; my permission to use your words for the title oh ok, the dog barks are almost similar to ours here... but those pigs, hahaha! they are extremely different ones! sure everybody wants to butcher them for those pigs moving to your country, oh i think they are very flexible to follow UK's pig accent
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
waaahahahaha!LMAAAOOOO! mysD, i'm no match to your question..ok let me think... uuhmmm, maybe it will all be up to the "power of love" language is not a barrier LoL or atleast your cat can learn to speak English
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hi lucky, all i could say is hahahaha..is this a human sound??? how about hehehe or hihihi..actually human do bark too like grrrr... you know, humans is the highest form of animal species though homosapien..tall and erect and highly intelligent though.. well, good things you list them all and finally i do learn something from you.. i still need to meet those foreign dogs, pig, and frogs.. so funny but they really have different sounds... yup, we belong in the same country and i hear them all the time..lol..
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
of course, as I am waiting for them, dearly..hehehe.. have you meet some then introduce it to me..lol.. that sounds interesting as different animals from different countries have different sound produce.. very amazing indeed..
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
well, i do love cartoon too they fit my likes as they are very harmless, though..
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hahaha! you want to meet foreign animals eh? LoL then maybe if our local dogs will go abroad like US, they'll have their own accent too...wonder how would that be hehe yes, it's the way interpret, i wonder how those animals interpret our sound too hahaha
• India
29 Nov 09
Wow, man that is some great knowledge you have. I really didn't know about it. I think it is just human interpretation of animals. They speak in the same way all over the world. Travel to any part of the world you will find it all the same.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
sure you are right, they sound the same, but it's funny to hear how each one put into words those sounds so how do you think your country put these animal sounds into our sound?
• India
29 Nov 09
well, my country has over 1 billion citizens I cannot represent them all.And you should have noted that it varies from person to person not from country to country how one interpret animal sounds
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
Yeah your right..You can't represent the one billion people in your country! and right again its vary from person to person.. Just want to ask you a question. How many dialect has India have? And How many national language do India have? Its just that simple..Lost of people uses different words but theirs always one or two that will standout that the majority of the rest can understand or comprehend.. Do your country have a comics section in newspaper? What if you are the editor in chief of that newspaper and the topic is the dog and the cat and the rabbit has a meeting.. what word will you right to best describe that the dog is barking? and the cat and the rabbit? I hope I make sense to what I'm saying..
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hahaha..its nice to have an interesting topic like this..I give you a plus on this.. I think oink! oink! is an international language for pig.. Maybe because of U.S. and British influence? I think..just correct me if I'm wrong they uses oink oink in their cartoons or comics.. .......... I'm in the Philippines and province of iloilo.. I think the pig sound is ..eweeiikkk,, eweeiikk.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hi bulastika^^;; uuhhmm i don't how the animal sound in our country were influenced by US and British but maybe yes...let's wait if someone from those countries respond eweeiikkk,, eweeiikk! is like the sound when they butcher pigs LoL! the sound when they are crying does that pig sound change if they do particular things?
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
we have a back yard piggery and then feeding times comes.. they say eweeiikk, eweeiikk, (demanding for food) but when scared..wheiiikkkk..its more on shriek. that how we differentiate if the pig is hungry or if they are in danger or scared.. hungry start with a soft "e" and end on a demanding tone. lolz
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
a soft oink oink when they see familiar faces...like the caretaker..and they will great you with their snout.. its means they want you to rub their tummy..lolz
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
30 Nov 09
There is a toy that was popular when I was a little kid. I think they still have these toys now. The toy is the sounds of farm animals. I wonder if because of the interpretation or of the pronounciation of different animal sounds, does that mean that if these same toys are sold in other countries, they too have different sounds? The Dog goes : Ruff Ruff, Woof Woof, Bark Bark, Rarf or Grrr, Growl. The Pig Goes : Oink Oink The Frog : Ribbit Ribbit... In the USA...
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
30 Nov 09
Even those toys manufactured in different countries may be imported to the US and have our standard sounds for animals, or the way interpret them... but the same toys that are manufactured in the same place, will have a different sound if they are to stay in that country... yes you are right.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
hi SomeCowgirl^^;; good question! ..maybe if they are being imported from the US then it'll have the same sound. but if they will manufacture it in their own country, then they'll follow how they interpret the sound in that country.. here in the Phils, we mostly follow westerners so i guess the dog and pig will be the same...though the frog will sound kookak! kookak!
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@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
1 Dec 09
ahh yes, thank you for the clarification it'll be funny if two toy dogs made and sold on different countries will be played in one place and have different sounds LoL!
@ilyzium (1197)
• Canada
29 Nov 09
You know believe it or not, but I actually read about this once and the answer might surprise you? Ok, well it is nothing to do with the animals making a different sound depending on the country they live in. It actually has to do more with the how people of different cultures hear these animals sounds differently depending where they come from. So, yes someone from the Philippines would hear a different sound from an animal, compared to someone from Korea, India, Italy, etc. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the animals, but how the human interprets the sound from his ears. Quite interesting I think.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hi ilyzium^^;; yes ofcourse you are right, they have the same sound everywhere around the world. it's just us people from different countries interpret and write it in a different way..and that makes it funny try to say the the dog sound from Korea, i think it's really different but that's the way people there say it
@angelsmummy (1696)
29 Nov 09
Hmmm... I have never really thought about it. Our dogs seem to go ruuuuuf pigs seem to snore and out frogs ribbit! Thats the best way I can describe it!
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
hahaha yeah i think the ribbit! ribbit! for frogs is the nearest but maybe they are the small ones how about the bigger ones? pigs snore? ok, i can relate that to my neighbor, he do sound like a pig hakhak!
29 Nov 09
I dont know I am scared of frogs so try to keep my distance haha! Pigs do sound like they snore people say its oink oink but you know when you have got a blocked nose and you go sleep and you snore, well kind of like that!
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@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
you wouldn't believe how big frogs here are LoL, so the sound is a bit loud and low and yes, the pig sound will be similar to ones who have a clogged nose...or maybe the pig you heard also have a clogged nose
@happy6162 (3001)
• United States
30 Nov 09
I have never heard that dogs bark different if you move abroad. When I was overseas the dogs I hear barking sounded just like the ones here in the US. So I would not know what a dog sound like in another country.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
hi happy^^;; don't believe the title of my discussion ofcourse they don't, it's just each country interpret those animal sound and write them into words where we can read on local comic books or newspapers' comic page. i was also amused when one of my Korean friend said dog sound is mung!mung! maybe written dog and other animal sound in the US is almost similar to ours since we use English here as our second language and so we do follow westerners
@sunnycool (12714)
• India
29 Nov 09
hi Lucky never knew that animals follow different lamguages as we do. I dont think so. All they differ is in their skin color and their hair aspects. I never personally heard how they do utter sounds atleast of the frogs.but the dogs and pigs at our place seem to be of same kind at your place so they make the same noises. gud day.
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
oh same here? then those animals must be Filipinos LoL yes right sunny, they are all same, it's only us who makes it different..
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
heehee! you're saying they also can travel...?ok let's say some animals migrated in your country from other countries, then what are the sound of those natives there?
@sunnycool (12714)
• India
29 Nov 09
i really dont know if they had reached our place through plane or any other means.can help me in investigating with this
• Italy
30 Nov 09
a dog’s bark would be: Italy: bau-bau For pig sound: Italy: oink-oink For frogs: Italy: cra-cra (same as for ravens)
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
hi paleorainy^^;; i think the bau-bau similar to bowwow! and so as the pig, but i cannot relate to the frog sound. i'm actually saying it now but it doesn't sound cra-cra! yeah, funny isn't it? you may find our frog sound strange too but it's the way we interpret it maybe there'll be more differences if we try to compare all the animal sounds
@rika999 (104)
• India
30 Nov 09
good experiment it is a good thing to experiment. i think you should write a thesis on the barking pattern of dog and its change according to places. please share if you do any thing i this regard
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
hi rika^^;; maybe i could do that if i'm a veterinarian and still in school hhmm those are just interpretation of people from different countries i've mentioned. it's funny isn't it. each animal sounds are the same but the way we hear it and write it seems different... so how about in your country, how would you say or imitate those 3 animals sound? try to put it in words, let's try...it'll be fun
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
the sound fo the dog in the philippines is GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! Bark!!!! BARK!!!!!! the same also in other country.....
@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
hi thierdy^^;; i guess the Gggggrrr! sound are for those that are angry and this applies to people too and yes, they are actually the same to other countries but the way they are being interpret by human varies...
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
11 Dec 09
hi! Just check if theirs a new dog talks here..arf arf..lolz