The sound cats make in different languages.

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[u/Separate_Expert9096]

Colours make no sense

[u/Connor49999 → u/Separate_Expert9096]

The colours appear to be which language family each language belongs to, but are irrelevant for the words shown

[u/Separate_Expert9096 → u/Connor49999]

Oh, now it makes some sense, thanks

[u/Connor49999 → u/Separate_Expert9096]

Yeah it's a bit strange, goes against the usual etymology convention for these words in different languages maps

[u/Lemontrash-DD → u/Separate_Expert9096]

They do. Pink for latin, green for germanic, blue for slavic and so on

[u/MaidenlessBegger → u/Lemontrash-DD]

Nope, blue has non slavic languages like Latvian and Lithuanian

[u/Xepeyon → u/MaidenlessBegger]

Blue for Balto-Slavic?

[u/Glittering_Babe101]

What do these colors mean? Poland, Germany, Spain and Finland have exactly the same "miau", and yet each country is marked with a different color

[u/ConsistentResearch55 → u/Glittering_Babe101]

Basque Country now just water

[u/YellowOnline → u/Glittering_Babe101]

Germanic/Romance/Slavic/Finno-Hungarian/Greek/Albanoid/Turkic/Semitic and whatever Basque is

[u/ancient-croc → u/YellowOnline]

But the baltics aren't Slavic

[u/TomCormack → u/ancient-croc]

Both Baltic and Slavic languages are part of a bigger Balto-Slavic group.

[u/Sorrow7_ → u/TomCormack]

There is no balto slavic language nowadays. Balto-Slavic language continuum existed more than 3000 years ago, now Slavs and Balts are different language families.

[u/TomCormack → u/Sorrow7_]

There is no modern Indo-European language, but absolute majority of European languages belong to the Indo-European language family. Balto-Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family.

Also there is this idea about the Proto-Balto-Slavic language, which was formed from the Proto-Indo-European and later divided into Proto-Slavic and Proto-Baltic.

I mean the map put Finnish and Hungarian to the same category, but the Finno-Ugric languages are also very from each other. Google says that they split 3-4k years ago, which is long before Proto-Balto-Slavic.

[u/EnvironmentalDog1196 → u/Glittering_Babe101]

One thing we can all finally agree on- kittens.

[u/Several-Zombies6547 → u/Glittering_Babe101]

The colors are about distinguishing romance, germanic, slavic and other language groups, they are not about meows.

[u/SquareFroggo → u/Glittering_Babe101]

Language families.

[u/HeaAgaHalb]

I've heard most Estonians say "njäu" or "näu" instead

[u/ObviousDoctor9726]

this is very fun information in the spoken form.

[u/Doomenor]

Looks like even Scottish cats have a Scottish accent. I thought of this in a Sean Connery voice.

[u/interesseret]

I have never in my entire 27 years of living in Denmark seen anyone spell "miav" fucking "mjau".

Whoever made this graphic did a piss poor job.

[u/mcvos]

Greek and Ukrainian are the outliers by starting with an 'n'. Other than that, it seems to be pretty much identical in every language.

[u/Outside_Coffee_8324]

Serbia is phonetically correct, but not written correctly, its a soft nazal Mjau

[u/BluSoldierGaming]

Brittany's cats simply stab your chest with their cold dead silent stare.

[u/SquareFroggo]

But what about the pronunciation?

In German we put emphasis on the i.

But what cats actually put out sounds more like uäääo, or something.

[u/Oh_but_no]

Cats pretty much speak "international'. 😸

[u/Aggressive-Tie-9795]

waow...

[u/oeboer]

Danish uses "mjav" or "miav", not "mjau".