Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, daniel andreasson wrote:

> Finally, the paper on onomatopoetic animal sounds is done.
> On request I've translated the material into English and
> uploaded it to my site. The address is:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/conlangus/onomato.html
>
> A big thank you to all you who helped me out by
> volunteering as consultants.
>
> So what do you think?
Neat!  I haven't gotten to look at your data in anything resembling
detail, but it's sure interesting stuff (and, I'm sure, inspirational for
conlanging animal onomatopoeia, if I've spelled that right...).

Now, is there any correlation between animal *names* and the
sounds/verbs?  In Korean, cat is "goyangi" and the sound a cat makes is
"yaong"; a magpie is "kkach'i" and its cry is "kka kka kka"; OTOH a dog
is a "gae" and its barking is "meong meong," so the correlation falls
apart...

YHL

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