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Did you know that dogs bark in many languages? 🐶💬
Woof is the conventional representation in the English language of the barking of a dog. As with other examples of onomatopoeia or imitative sounds, other cultures "hear" the dog's barks differently and represent them in their own ways. Some of the equivalents of "woof" in other languages are as follows:
- English – woof woof; ruff ruff; arf arf (large dogs and also the sound of sea lions); yap yap; yip yip (small dogs), bow wow, bork bork
- Belgian (flemish) – woef, woef; blaf, blaf; waf, waf (large dogs) Keff, keff; Wuff, Wuff (small dogs)
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Chinese
- Mandarin – wāngwāng (汪汪)
- Cantonese – wou1 wou (㕵㕵)
- German – wau wau; wuff, wuff;
- Japanese – wan-wan (ワンワン); kyan-kyan (キャンキャン)
- Portuguese – au-au; ão-ão; béu-béu (toddler language); cain-cain (whining)
- Russian – гав-гав (gav-gav); тяв-тяв (tyav-tyav (small dogs)); ав-ав (av-av (toddler language)); rarely ряв-ряв (ryaf-ryaf (angry dogs and bears))