Translated Sounds

A dog bark is "woof" in English, "ouaf" in French, and "wan-wan" in Japanese. This interactive dictionary compares how languages represent shared sounds through native scripts and romanizations. The website uses a lightweight static dataset, while the GitHub version stores the Wikipedia-sourced data in a relational SQL database organizing sound, language, native spelling, and romanization of 670 entries across 58 languages.

To use: Click for another language and double-click for another sound.

GitHub