Arf! Yamph! Woof! Yaffle! Yawp! →
Impossible task or not, people have been trying to describe (or transcribe) dog sounds as long as people have loved (and had to listen to) dogs. It’s no secret that other languages have their own interpretations: for example, dog barks are expressed as “vov-vov,” “chau-chau,” “kian-kian,” “hev-hev,” and “guf-guf,” in Danish, Russian, Japanese, Turkish, and Spanish respectively.
