What is nya?
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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Wow I didn't know cats spoke different languages. What does a cat sound like in Brazil?
miau
Bonus: bunnies jumping in Japan can be heard making the sound pyon
Japanese has tons of great onomatopoeia. The Fox says "kon kon", and the mouse goes "chuu chuu".
And kissing is chu, I believe, so mice make kissing noises?
Yep, a long kiss at least. 😛
Not only cats, most sounds are expressed differently in different languages. If you want to learn more about that you should search for cross-linguistic onomatopoeia.
Word.
😼 Нет, this is НЯ 🐈
so it’s pronounced Toys “ya” Us, not Toys “are” Us?
HR 🐈🐈⬛
Ah yes, reminds me of the old joke: An otaku blacksmith's tool: някавайня
For clarification, it's nya-kawaii-nya, and it sounds like russian word for anvil, наковальня (nakoval'nya). Very roughly can be translated as on-smither. Also this word is feminine.
НЯ
I was having some trouble posting with the title of this post
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