Can an English dog speak to a German dog?
By umart13
@umart13 (841)
Ireland
March 29, 2009 7:03am CST
Does a dog say woof-woof or bow-wow? How does a German cat understand an English cat's meouw, if the German cat says miau? How can an English speaking female hen find the right partner if he says kikeriki each morning? What do animals say in your language? It would be great if you could tell me your language and your examples to help me with this important research. WIth thanks, Umart
5 responses
@leeapollo (611)
• China
30 Mar 09
lol, maybe ,who knows?
very interesting topic,hope you can get the answer soon.
happy mylotting.
@umart13 (841)
• Ireland
10 Apr 09
Hi leeapollo, Thanks for your answer. I am having a bit of fun with this. Even my language students found the topic very funny. I am discovering that there are a lot of similar cat and dog sounds, but there are some very funny differences and it seems that a Russian dog saying guf guf may understand a Hungarian pig saying ruf ruf. Happy Easter. Umart
@tosha86 (133)
• United States
30 Mar 09
lol. The way I have always looked at it... a german dog or cat is only german because that is where they originated from but just like people if you are of german blood and family but was raised in england you would understand english if that's what you was brought up to speak or if you speak both your animal can understand and speak both because they learn from their owner just like a child. You can tell your dog to do things in german 'german command' but talk to your dog in english and the understand that also. So why can't it be the same for animals? Trial and error, if we can learn so can they.
Hope im on the right track with this! Lol.
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
30 Mar 09
your topic is quite interesting. when people from other countries, communicate with their pets, in their foreign language, the dogs / cats understands..when the pets communicate with each other, they are using the dog/cat language... i am not sure if in what language...their language must be universal, for them to understand the different languages of the humans.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
20 Apr 09
i think they have a language all their own and its just for them. they understand each other that way. maybe its called Animalish?
@litian008 (58)
• China
29 Mar 09
It is a really interesting question. I am a Chinese, here a dog say wow-wow and a cat say miau also. I think dogs or cats from England or Chinese say the same words. Different from people, animals don't have consummate throat. They can only make few kinds of voice, which is decided by structure. This is just my personal opinion.
