Author: Ela Britchkow, Speech Therapist, Accent Reduction Specialist People all over the world use different words to describe the sound a cat makes. A small number of countries use Meow but most have their own special word. Read the post and learn more about the surprising variations. "Just watching my cats can make me happy." -Paula Cole I like cats and I like languages (I speak 4 languages). My mother spoked Polish and when she read books and it showed a dog barking, she would say ‘how-how”. So I was wondering how people say the sound that cats make. As you can see from this list, the cat’s basic “meow” is widely interpreted by different languages, but do share a recognizable sound pattern. The spelling/sound differences may be more from the limitations/parameters that each language has rather than a real difference in translating cat sounds. I found looking at these enjoyable, I hope that you do, too. Saying Meow in European Languages Albanian mjaullin Basque Meow Belarusian мяў Bosnian Mjau Bulgarian мяу Catalan meu Croatian mijau Czech mňau Danish miav Dutch miauw Estonian Mjäu Finnish Miau French Miaou Galician miar German Miau Greek Μιάου Hungarian miáú Icelandic mjá Irish meow Italian Miao Latvian Mjau Lithuanian Miau Macedonian meow Maltese mjaw Norwegian mjau Polish Miau Portuguese Miau Romanian miau Russian мяу Serbian мјау Slovak mňau Slovenian mijav Spanish maullar Swedish mjau Ukrainian Мяу Welsh Meow Yiddish מיאַו Saying Meow in Asian Languages Language Azerbaijani miyavlamak Bengali মিউ Chinese Simplified 喵 Chinese Traditional 喵 Georgian meow Gujarati મેઓવ Hindi मियांउ Hmong Miob Japanese ニャー Kannada ಮಿಯಾಂವ್ Kazakh мияу Khmer meow Korean 야옹 Lao meow Malayalam മ്യാവു Marathi Meow Mongolian Meow Myanmar (Burmese) ညောင် Nepali meow Sinhala මියාව් Tajik мияв Tamil மியாவ் Telugu మిఅవ్ Thai เหมียว Urdu میاوں Uzbek myau Vietnamese meo Saying Meow in Middle-Eastern Languages Arabic مواء Hebrew לילל Persian میو Turkish miyav Saying Meow in African Languages Afrikaans miaau Chichewa muyawo Hausa meow Igbo meow Sesotho meow Somali Meow Swahili meow Yoruba Meow Zulu Meow Saying Meow in Austronesian Languages Cebuano meow Filipino meow Indonesian meong Javanese Kantha Malagasy meo Malay meow Maori Meow Are you repeatedly asked, “What?” or “Can you say that again?”
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