A definitive A-Z guide to meow beyond Japanese “nyān”. Want to know how cats say meow in other languages? Take a look at the table below.
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Language differences:
| Meow | Language |
| Muwaa’ (مٌواء) | Arabic |
| Meo | Vietnamese |
| Meong | Indonesian |
| Meow | English |
| Miaou | French |
| Miau | Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Finnish, German, Ido, Interlingua, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish |
| Miauw | Dutch |
| Miao (喵) | Mandarin Chinese |
| Miao | Italian |
| Miyav | Turkish |
| Miav | Danish |
| Mjau | Norwegian and Swedish |
| Mao (ম্যাঁও (myām̥ō)) | Bengali |
| Meogre | Kyrgyz |
| Miaŭ | Esperanto |
| Ngiyaw | Filipino |
| Miyāʾūṉ (میاؤں) | Urdu |
| Mjá | Icelandic |
| Mňau | Slovak, Czech |
| Ngeung | Kapampangan |
| Njäu | Estonian |
| Nau | Latvian |
| Nyav | Ukrainian |
| Mi’au | Lojban |
| Niaou (νιάου) | Greek |
| Nyān (にゃーん) | Japanese |
| Ya-ong (야옹) | Korean |
| Myau (מיאו) | Hebrew |
| Myau (מיאַו) | Yiddish |
| Mjau (мјау) | Serbian |
| Miáú (miau) or nyaú | Hungarian |
| Myau (мяу) | Russian |
| Miaw | Malay |
| Mijav | Slovene |
Via Wikipedia.
Did you know that cats meow to people, but not to other cats?
Meowing is not part of natural cat language — it was developed almost exclusively for humans!
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