Saying “Oink” In Many Different Ways

While English-speaking pigs say “oink!”, pigs in different countries have their own oral ways of expressing guilt-filled disgust over the fact that they love eating their own shit.

* Afrikaans - snork
* Albanian - hunk
* Albowskese - eeh
* Bengali - ghɲt ghɲt (ghot, with ‘o’ as in ‘oar’, but with a nasal inflection)
* Bulgarian - грух (gruh), квик (kvik)
* Catalan - onk
* Chinese:
o Cantonese Chinese - god
o Mandarin Chinese - hulu
o Min Nan - kōⁿ
* Croatian - rok
* Czech - chro
* Danish - øf
* Dutch - knor
* Esperanto - grunt
* Estonian - röhh, rui
* Finnish - röh, nöf
* French - grouik or grui
* German - grunz or oink oink
* Greek - γρου γρου
* Hungarian - röf
* Japanese - buu
* Korean - 꿀꿀 (kkul-kkul) [ɡ̬ulɡ̬ul]
* Latvian - ruk or urkš urkš
* Lithuanian - kriu kriu
* Norwegian - nøff
* Polish - chrum, kwik
* Portuguese - óinc
* Romanian - groh, guiţ
* Russian - хрю (hryu)
* Serbian - grok
* Slovak - kroch, kvik
* Spanish - oing or oinc
* Swedish - nöff
* Thai - ood
* Ukrainian - хру (hru)
* Welsh - soch

Some of my neighbors, who my mother love calling “Them pigs!”, speak in their own unique way, too. Some of them even have blogs.
via WIKIPEDIA

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