Animal Noises Proposal

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

WHEREAS there are already animal noises in el glhetg such as: miau and gügarügü, and

WHEREAS el glhetg is missing some fundemental animal sounds, such as: the sound a cow makes (moo), and the sound a dog makes (woof).

THEREFORE, I propose that we add the following words to the Treisour:

1. "biz" to denote the sound of a bee from the French "bzz."
2. "cip" to denote the sound of a small bird from the English "cheep."
3. "tvit" to denote the sound of a medium bird from the English "tweet."
4. "spirida" to denote the sound of a big bird from the Talossan "ispiridar" - "to squawk."
5. "varbe" to denote the sound of a group of birds from the English "warble."
6. "xhrumph" to denote the sound of a camel nuzzling from the English "grumph."
7. "truna" to denote the sound of a cat purring from the Talossan "trunar" - "to purr."
8. "cjucta" to denote the sound of a hen clucking from the Talossan "cjuctar" - "to cluck."
9. "mö" to denote the sound of a cow mooing from the French "meuh."
10. "I-â (to be changed to I-a)" to denote the sound of a donkey "heehawing" from the
English "hee-haw."
11. "blafa" to deonte the sound of a small dog from the Talossan "blafar" - "To yap."
12. "wuf-wuf" to denote the sound of a medium dog from the English "woof-woof."
13. "þidna" to denote the sound of a horse neighing from the Talossan "þidnar" - "to neigh."
14. "urla" to denote the sound of a owl hooting from the Talossan "urlar" - "to hoot."

Sources:
www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html
kingdomoftalossa.net/index.cgi?lingo=&page=Glhetgineir

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

I don't understand this... did you join the CUG? And why a resolution - what is wrong with simply using these onomatopoeia? Isn't that how words become words?

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

1. No, I'm not part of the CUG, I'm just interested in having a complete dictionary.
2. If that was how the Talossan language worked, then I would be able to just tear apart the grammar because I felt like it, and just expect that everyone understood me!
3. Yes, onomatopoeia is usually how this works, but different cultures hear different things for instance: the word in English for a bird cheeping is "cheep" but in portuguese it's "pio" and in Turkish it's juyk juyk

[King John]

When new Talossan words are needed, we try to derived them primarily from such Southern Romance languages as Ruman (North African Latin), Occitan (aka Provençal), Sardinian, and Sicilian. Borrowings from English (except for scientific, technological, and pop-culture terms) are discouraged.

— John R

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

Unfortunately, it is quite hard to find the Ruman, Occitan, Sardinian, and Sicilian words for animal noises, though if they could be found, I would be very greatful