Dialects of the Rooster

TODAY'S LESSON

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Did you know that roosters in other parts of the

world speak a different language than roosters in America?

Note:  Derby could care less

To me, the English speaker who says “cock-a-doodle-doo,” 

a rooster crow is a silly five-syllable word with three hard sounds. 

To most European, roosters speak mostly in three 

syllable bursts, with a roly-poly French accent if they’re in 

France and the thin, sharp sounds of a Spanish accent if they 

live in Spain. The way it’s pronounced gives the rooster a different personality.

I was interested in how “cock-a-doodle-doo” is said in other languages. 

(Note: This list was blatantly borrowed fromYawiktionary.com!)

Africaans: koekelekoe Albanian: kikiriki Basque: kikirriki Belarusian: кукарэку (kukarekú) Bosnian: kukuriku Breton: kokaralur Bulgarian: кукурику (kukuriku) Catalan: kikkirikí, quiquiriquic Chinese: Cantonese: (gokogoko) Mandarin: (gou gou) Croatian: kukuriku Czech: kykyryký Danish: kykkeliky Dutch: kukeleku Estonian: kikerikii Esperanto: kokeriko Finnish: kukkokiekuu French: cocorico Gaelic: cuc-a-dudal-du German: kickeriki Greek: κουκουρίκου (koukouríkou) Hebrew: קוקוריקו (kukuriku) Hindi: (kukruukuu)

Hungarian: kukuriku Icelandic: gaggala gaggala gú Indonesian: kukurukukin Italian: chicchirichí Japanese: こけこっこう (kokekokkō) Kashubian: kùkùk Korean: 꼬끼요 (kkokkiyo) Lithuanian: kakariekū Macedonian: кукурику (kukurikú) Norwegian: kykeliky Polish: kukuryku Portuguese: cucurucu Punjabi: (kukroku), (kukrukaru) Romanian: cucurigu Russian: кукареку (kukarekú) Serbian: Cyrillic: кукурику Latin: kukuriku Spanish: quiquiriquí Swedish: kuckeliku Tagalog: kukaok Thai: เอ้ก-อี-เอ้ก-เอ้ก (ake-e-ake-ake) Turkish: kukuriku Ukrainian: кукуріку (kukurikú)

And my personal favorite, Pig Latin: “ockcay-away-oodleday-ooday”!

 So ... here you have it.  The dialects of the Rooster and

two cock-a-doodle-doo quilts.