Onomatopoeaia in other languages?

[cattiechaos]

For example, in English we would say "Ouch!" or "Ow!" and in Japanese it'd be "Itai" (literally, "pain".) I was wondering how other languages express sounds like crash/bang, "argh" vs "ahh!", "Uh..." vs "Um" or "Er". (I find it humorous that some Americans will use "thingamabob" or "thingamajig" when they are casting about for a word they do not

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[bmh4d0k3n]

Cracked.com has an article on onomatopoeia around the world: 6 Noises Foreign Languages Suck At.

[shorofsky]

That's what horses say in Danish. I had the hardest time getting my head to understand that horses in other languages don't say the same thing even though they sound the same. It's a funny thing.