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Linguistic Representations of How Animals Sound Across Languages
On a recent trip to Los Cabos, another tourist imitated the ducks wandering along our path, and from those vocalizations, I guessed he wasn’t a native English speaker. Thanks to this fun and illuminating data visualization (and sonification?) of the onomatopoeia of animal sounds in multiple languages, I now know it was the Korean version of “quack.”
How do animals sound across languages?
Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
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