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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What is nya?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meow in Japanese

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wow I didn't know cats spoke different languages. What does a cat sound like in Brazil?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

miau

Bonus: bunnies jumping in Japan can be heard making the sound pyon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Japanese has tons of great onomatopoeia. The Fox says "kon kon", and the mouse goes "chuu chuu".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And kissing is chu, I believe, so mice make kissing noises?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yep, a long kiss at least. 😛

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not only cats, most sounds are expressed differently in different languages. If you want to learn more about that you should search for cross-linguistic onomatopoeia.

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