Multilingual animal sounds - need your help!

[p_b_journal]

Hello there, linguaphiles! I'm an intern at the translation journal Pusteblume. Every so often we try to take on additional language-related projects, and recently I've been trying to put together what I hope will eventually be the Web's Most Comprehensive List of Multilingual Animal Sounds. However, as I've been getting most of the information I have from the

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[p_b_journal]

Thank you! Added.

[di_glossia]

I added a few. I'm curious as to whether you would like to include approximations of sounds? Because, for example, oink oink is the "sound" of a pig in English, but I'd be much more likely to snort or squeal than to say that a pig says "oink oink". The same goes for geese, donkeys, and goats. There are also sometimes verbs that are used, such as grunt, squeal, snort, trumpet, and roar that don't quite seem to fit into your spreadsheet.

Btw, I'm absolutely stumped as to what sound an elephant would make. Elephants trumpet, but that's not onomatopoeia.

[provencepuss]

"Btw, I'm absolutely stumped as to what sound an elephant would make. Elephants trumpet, but that's not onomatopoeia."

that makes 2 of us...

[p_b_journal]

That's a good question. At this point, what I'm mostly looking for is the first type of sound you described - the sort of things you'd tell children that animals say. I'm not really looking for verbs, which has been annoying at times in my Googling. :P

To be honest, I don't know what sort of sound I'd say an elephant makes either! I learned it as a sort of "brooo" noise, but I've got no idea how to spell that.

[mottledsculpin]

Japanese:
cat - "nyan" or "nyaa nyaa"
dog - "wan wan"
frog - "kero kero"
mouse - "chuu chuu"
rooster - "kokekokko"
pig - "buu buu"
cow - "moo moo" (sounds like "moh", not English "moo")
horse - "hihiin"
sheep - "mee mee"
duck - "gaa gaa"
crow - "kaa kaa"

I can't think of any more.

[p_b_journal]

Thank you!

[p_b_journal]

Thank you! I don't know any Dutch myself apart from "Ik hou van jou", so this is really helpful. :)

[safirakey]

This is awesome! Thank you :)
I've added (and edited) few sounds(in Czech). I have also noticed there's no Slovak which is language very close to Czech but still - I don't feel experienced enough to write it down. Someone else, maybe?

[p_b_journal]

Oh gosh, thank you! And I'd love it if someone added some Slovak. :)