The Sound of a Cats Meow Around the World – This is what the world says a cat sounds like when it meows. Several languages! #Meow #CatsMeow
The Sound of a Cats Meow Around the World
In a previous post we mentioned that cats meow only to hoomans (Humans).
The word for the “miau” or “meow” sound varies in different languages, including:
| Written form | Languages in use |
|---|---|
| muwaa’ (مٌواء) | Arabic |
| meo-meo | Vietnamese |
| meong | Indonesian |
| meow | English |
| miaou | French |
| miau | Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Finnish, German, Ido, Interlingua, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian and German |
| miauw | Dutch |
| miao | Mandarin Chinese |
| miao | Italian |
| miyav | Turkish |
| miav | Danish |
| mjau | Norwegian and Swedish |
| mao (ম্যাঁও (myām̥ō)) | Bengali |
| meogre | Kyrgyz |
| miaŭ | Esperanto |
| miyāʾūṉ (میاؤں) | Urdu |
| mjá | Icelandic |
| mňau | Slovak, Czech |
| ngeung | Kapampangan |
| njäu | Estonian |
| niau | Ukrainian |
| latcmo | Lojban |
| niaou (νιάου) | Greek |
| nyā (ニャー) | Japanese |
| ya-ong | Korean |
| myau (מיאו) | Hebrew |
| myau (מיאַו) | Yiddish |
| mjau (мјау) | Serbian |
| miáú (miau) or njaú | Hungarian |
| myau (мяу) | Russian |
Per WikiPedia
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