What Animal Sounds Are Like in Different Languages

As the Bard said:

Dog goes 'woof', cat goes 'meow'

Bird goes 'tweet' and mouse goes 'squeek'

Cow goes 'moo', frog goes 'croak'

And the elephant goes 'toot'

But this is true in only the English language. In other human languages, animal vocalizations are pronounced differently--albeit sometimes only slightly.

Vivian Li of The Pudding has charts with soundboards illustrating the onomatopoeia that express different animal sounds, including cats, ducks, and pigs. She goes into an astonishing amount of detail about the phonetic mechanics involved in making each sound in each language and draws connections between them despite these different languages originating around the world. 

-via Flowing Data