The word "meow" (or "miaow") is onomatopoeic. Different languages have correspondingly different words for the "meow" sound, including miau (Belarusian, Hungarian, Dutch, Finnish, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Romanian, Malay and Spanish), niau (Ukrainian), niaou (νιάου,[4] Greek), miaou (French), nya (ニャ, Japanese), miao (喵, Mandarin Chinese, Italian), miav/miao or mjav/mjau (Danish and Norwegian), mjá (Icelandic), ya-ong (야옹, Korean) and meo-meo (Vietnamese).[5] In some languages (such as Chinese 貓, māo), the vocalization became the name of the animal itself.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 07:17:59 +0000
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