What are the Italian equivalents of the English:

Pigs - Oink - ?
Dogs - Bow-wow, arf - ?
Cats - Meow - ?
Birds - tweet, tweet - ?
Cows - moo -?
sheep - baaa - ?
ducks - quack -?

Others?

Maiali ........ you can't write this... they sound in italian like a "snoring" sound....
Cani - BAU BAU
Gatti - MIAO
Uccelli - CIP CIP
Mucche - MUU MUU
Pecore - BEEEE BEEE
Anitre - QUAC (or QUACK)
can't think of any other right now....

rooster: chicchedichi (sp?) instead of cock-a-doodle-do

rooster (Gallo) CHICCHIRICHÌ
Gallina - COCCODÈ
Topo (mouse) - SQUIT SQUIT

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Originally posted by Giulia da Urbino:
Cani - BAU BAU
Gatti - MIAO
Uccelli - CIP CIP
Mucche - MUU MUU
Pecore - BEEEE BEEE
Anitre - QUAC (or QUACK)

Quindi, in italiano sono una pecora?

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Quindi, in italiano sono una pecora?


Beebee

... Never read you "in Italian" before.... to me you're "BII BII"

There's a great scene in Moretti's "Caro Diario" in which some adults must go through various animal noises before being allowed, by the children who've answered the phone, to speak to the parents.

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Originally posted by Fibonacci:
Pigs - Oink - ?

In Italian the pigs souns is not writable, since it's a sound made in the nose, like someone snoring.

Frogs (rane) - Cra cra
Corvo (crow) - Cra cra (again)
Asino (ass) - Iii-oooh

Here is a page from the University of Adelaide with animal sounds, commands and the most popular names given to animals in storybooks in 17 languages.

Georgetown University used to have a webpage with animal sounds with audio. It's a shame that they recently took it down.

Hehe, Adelaide Uni is my uni. Trust an engineer to compile a list like that.

Maria, thanks for the page. I knew the Japanese ones, but now if I ever run into a Finnish engineer, we will be able to read kids' stories to each other!

What's actually most interesting to me are the ones that are the same in multiple languages. For instance, if you say Meeow in a number of cultures, you'll be understood to be making a cat sound! Thanks, all.

Actually, I can see a few mistakes in the list. Birds go "cip" not "chip", and cats purring go "ronf ronf" not "purr". yet, it myust be isad that often the English sounds are used in comics as "onomatopee" (?): this is due to the fact that in comics often the sound effects are inbuilt in the page, which means that they can't be replaced. Thus, the Italian sound of a gun shooting "Pam!" was substituted with the English "Bang!". You can see the "bangs" in the below page from Italian western Comic series Tex Willer.