This doesn’t make much sense because it purely looks at spelling, and not at pronunciation. We use ‘woef’ in Dutch as well, which is pronounced like, and probably has a common origin with, German ‘wuff’ and English ‘woof’.

French ‘ouaf’ is also pronounced essentially the same as Dutch ‘waf’, likely also not by accident.

This map is pretty much meaningless.

jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 44d

Spanish "guau" sounds like English "wow"

(Depending on accent, obv)

morto@piefed.social · 3 pts · 45d

Is must have been really hard to make that chart. Imagine listening to lots of dogs from different places

kunegis@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 45d (1 reply)

French is "ouah ouah".

German can be "wuff wuff" or "wau wau".

I doubt the rest is correct

brb@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 44d

Finnish is "hau hau"

HumbleBragger@piefed.social · 1 pts · 44d

And just like that I remembered about the Arbitrary Nature of Linguistic Sign I read about 20 years ago.

Rod_Orm@piefed.world · 1 pts · 45d

How, how?

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 45d

Turns out they bark the same.

RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 1 pts · 44d (2 replies)

The one for the Netherlands is wrong: dogs say "blaf blaf" here, not "waf waf."

Kertyna@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 44d (1 reply)

Probably also depends on where in the Netherlands you are. Rarely hear anyone say "Blaf!" I thought "Woef!" would be the most common.

RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 2 pts · 44d

Well, they say the city I live in has the most neutral of all Dutch accents... therefore, so do our dogs!